Sign-language events promote contact with deaf community David Kelsey, an organizer of the American Sign Language social night, talks to one of the participants during the event on Thursday, Dec.7.

For someone who is deaf, communicating with a clerk at a retail store or non-ASL-speaking friend over dinner often involves laboriously writing notes. An app called Jeenie offers an alternative ...

On her first morning as manager of the Walmart in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in September 2022, Vanessa Bennett, 28, gathered her staff together to introduce herself. She soon noticed a man and woman ...

Deaf Americans sue Trump over lack of sign language interpreters for White House events A 2020 court ruling mandated the White House provide real-time translations via American Sign Language ...

That is when she suggested practicing sign language and showed off a couple of messages including, “Hi, nice to meet you,” and “Good to see you.” ...

A federal judge grappled for over an hour on Wednesday with an effort to force the Trump administration to provide American Sign Language interpreters at White House press briefings.