According to the World Federation of the Deaf, there are around 70 million people worldwide whose first language is some kind of sign language. In the US, ASL (American Sign Language) speakers numb… ...

Using sign language with intensive speech therapy may be an effective treatment for children with a rare speech disorder called apraxia of speech, according researchers.

More than 275 million hearing-impaired people are unable to use speech to communicate. Sign language is one solution, but it’s only as helpful as the number of people who know the language. That ...

Bioengineers have designed a glove-like device that can translate American Sign Language into English speech in real time though a smartphone app. The system includes a pair of gloves with thin ...

The effects of learning American Sign Language on co-speech gesture. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15 (4), 677-686. "Life as a bilingual" posts by content area. François Grosjean's website.

Sign language is capable of great development as a universal language. Abstract ideas can be expressed in signs exactly as in spoken lan-guage namely, by metaphorical reference to concrete ideas.

Saudi designer Hadeel Ayoub has developed the "SignLanguageGlove", a so-called smart glove that wirelessly translates sign language as it is signed, doing so into speech or visual letters for ...

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IBM has developed a computer program that can translate the spoken word into sign language and then sign it out through an animated digital character, or avatar.

University of Washington undergrads Tommy Pryor and Navid Azodi have created talking gloves technology to help the deaf and mute communicate with the hearing world.