When a new baby is born in the United States, they are usually given a newborn hearing screening. If the baby is found to be deaf, parents are presented with a choice for their child: sign language or ...

American Sign Language has been around since 1817, but plenty of parents and concerned citizens are still back in the Dark Ages when it comes to realizing just how valuable ASL can be for kids. And ...

Courtney, a hearing mom whose husband is deaf, shared a video teaching her child how to sign Our Signed World/TikTok (2) Courtney, a hearing mom whose husband is deaf, shared a video teaching her ...

Born Deaf, Chennai-based Shraddha Agarwal built SignSetu — a bilingual Indian Sign Language (ISL) platform that helps Deaf ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

A few months ago, my 1 year old son started whining. For the first five seconds of his moans, I frantically looked around for what he could possibly want. I came up empty-handed. Fearing his whines ...

It's 2 a.m. and your 8-month-old wakes you from a deep sleep with a piercing wail. Then the guessing games begin. Is she wet? Hungry? Does she want her teddy bear? Does she have an earache? There's a ...

Since the 1980s, there has been a great deal of attention paid to the idea of teaching babies who can hear how to use sign language. There is nothing quite as cute as an 8-month-old baby who cannot ...

One day Christy Anderson was spooning mashed fruit into her baby’s mouth. "Do you want more?" she asked her son, Russell, then 10 months old. Russell brought the fingers of his hands together – the ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — A Westminster daycare is teaching American Sign Language to babies as young as 6 months old. "Children always want to learn something new, and we give them the opportunity to do ...