After a year of student campaigning, Northwestern may establish an American Sign Language class in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, bringing the University one step closer to recognizing ASL ...

This morning, four of my students asked to use the bathroom in the space of 10 minutes. In those same 10 minutes, I was able to conduct three formative assessments and adapt my teaching based on those ...

ASL is a complete and complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body. ASL is the language of the Deaf community in the United ...

In a small classroom at Indian Creek School in Crownsville, students are staring at teacher Allen Markel’s hands. Markel, who is showing how to give directions to someone who is deaf, points to an ...

American Sign Language instructor Andrew R. Bottoms was concerned that he would not have enough students to fill Linguistics 73a: “Beginning American Sign Language 1,” the first ASL class Harvard has ...

Learning American Sign Language (ASL) is not only a way to break communication barriers, it is viewed as a respectful and worthwhile skill to have. Sign language is not universal, and different ...

In Danielle Bowler’s class, it’s almost silent. You can hear the light sounds of footfalls, desks creaking and the occasional muffled giggle. The silence isn’t typical of a high school classroom, not ...

Students in Daniel Maier’s ASL 102 course are among the first cohort able to fulfill their Princeton language requirement with American Sign Language, which is now the basis of five ASL language ...

Roanoke College is utilizing the classroom to make the campus and community more accessible through American Sign Language ...