Rochester Institute of Technology

ASL-English Interpretation major uses life experiences to build sign-language skills

Growing up in Ethiopia, Zahria Ruper couldn’t communicate with her Deaf brother. But, life-changing experiences, including being adopted in the United States and learning American Sign Language from ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

ASL-English Interpretation BS

Growing up in Ethiopia, Zahria Ruper couldn’t communicate with her Deaf brother. Today, Ruper, a fourth-year ASL-English Interpretation major at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, is ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ASL is awesome: How and where your child can learn sign language

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 ...
WebMD

What is American Sign Language (ASL)?

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 ...
TMCnet

Bridging Silence: A Real-Time Sign Language to English Text Translation System Using Python, OpenCV, and Convolutional Neural Networks

Bridging communication gaps between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals is an important challenge in assistive ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Wearable Device Translates Sign Language To English

Some 500,000 Americans use American Sign Language (ASL). For deaf users of ASL, communication with those not fluent in the language can be a challenge. Though most deaf-born Americans learn spoken ...
The New York Times

American Sign Language & English School

225 East 23 Rd Street, New York, New York 10010 American Sign Language & English School State Median How American Sign Language & English School compares with other schools. (100 = state median) ...