Sign language has been used for years to communicate with deaf children, but the practice is becoming popular in playgroups nationwide among babies who can hear.

While it isn't surprising that infants and children love to look at people's movements and faces, recent research studies exactly where they look when they see someone using sign language. The ...

While it isn’t surprising that infants and children love to look at people’s movements and faces, recent research from NTID studies exactly where they look when they see someone using sign language.

When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one look at my tentative posture and held up some fingers. One? Two? I put up ...

Infants who are not familiar with sign language look at the hands in signing space perhaps because that is what is perceptually salient to them." ...

While it isn’t surprising that infants and children love to look at people’s movements and faces, recent research from NTID studies exactly where they look when they see someone using sign language.