A team of scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology will expand its work after receiving a large grant from the National Science Foundation to make chemistry more accessible for students who ...

We consider a new language invented by deaf children in Nicaragua, and how scientists are able to see the language evolving.

What fewer may know is that there are many different sign languages around the world, just as there are many different spoken languages. So how does the grammar of sign language work?

Deaf experimental psychologist Rain Bosworth has found that babies are primed to learn sign language just like spoken language.

Earlier this year, Bay Area-based Google put together a competition intended to use artificial intelligence in decode sign language in real time. According to Google, the goal of the competition ...

Not in spoken words, but in American Sign Language (ASL). These are parents and caregivers who have — or work with — children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Sign language allows people who are deaf or hard of hearing to enjoy rights just like anyone else, they are able to learn, work, and socialize.

More than 70 million deaf people around the world use sign languages to communicate. Sign language allows them to learn, work, access services, and be included in their communities.

RIT scientists received a grant from the National Science Foundation to expand their work on a sign language lexicon for chemistry.