A grant is making it possible for students in Cedar Hill Elementary's second-grade class to connect better with each other. Second-grader Carter McKee has a rare genetic syndrome that results in ...

An app that translates a selection of books into sign language has made the move on to Apple iOS, in a bid to help more than 30 million deaf children across the world. StorySign first arrived in ...

Khyiana Tate is on a mission to teach others, and she is not letting her deafness stop her. Like many teenagers, Tate is working toward getting her driver’s license as well as graduation from high ...

Storysign is an an app available for Android and iOS. It translates children’s books into American Sign Language, the world’s most popular version and used by deaf people in the US and Canada. This ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is one of four international innovators selected to create cost-effective packages of high-quality accessible children’s ...

Geoff Beattie has received funding from the ESRC for his work on gesture. Indeed, you can’t trust everything you read in body language guides. For example, in a book published in 1970, author Ray ...

Michael Tafolla says the books he read in prison helped him understand how he had landed there in the first place. He remembers one especially eye-opening title: Illegal: Reflections of an ...

Use the Google translation extension and go to the online website for books which are in Italian. and can be translated into English. It is also in Italian sign language. Some of the books have deaf ...

Dr. Hartwell Francis reads from a hand-printed Cherokee language book made in partnership with Western Carolina University. (Photo by Anya Petrone Slepyan/The Daily Yonder) At the entrance to the New ...

Young people, especially, are choosing to read in English even if it is not their first language because they want the covers, and the titles, to match what they see on TikTok and other social media.