The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Haylee Bohm. In the state of Michigan, students are required to take two years of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of leadership, culture & equity in business. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 01: An immigrants rights ...

American Sign Language is a dynamic living language with approximately 1 million users in the United States and Canada. A minor in ASL provides students with the ability to conceptualize language in a ...

The notion of making English the official language of the United States is not only misguided, it's harmful. It threatens the cultural identity of millions of people, including me and my community. On ...

Only 10% of people in the U.S. speak a foreign language proficiently. In comparison, in Europe, 65% of people can speak a second language other than their native tongue. Although the difference is ...

We all communicate through words, either by speaking or writing. Very rarely, we use nods, or some simple hand signs to communicate. Unfortunately, there are deaf people in the world who cannot hear ...

Nor should you assume your ancestors spoke a generic version of any language. There were variations in the basic language depending on the area your ancestors came from. People in Sicily didn’t speak ...

I was 3 years old the first time I mixed up Spanish and English. It would not be the last. It was 1975, and my family had recently migrated from Peru to Northern California. Shortly after our arrival, ...

Good morning. I’m Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, a KFF Health News correspondent based in Elko, Nevada, where Picon punches — a traditional Basque cocktail — warm residents as the temperature dips and ...