A video showing Jane McCullough "babbling" sign language to her grandparents has gone viral on TikTok Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

While working at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., the late cognitive neuroscientist Ursula Bellugi discovered that, much like spoken language, sign language was made up ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

She collaborated with two professors at Gallaudet University on the first ASL dictionary, laying the groundwork for a flourishing in Deaf identity over the last 50 years. By Clay Risen Dorothy ...

A wonder baby is using sign language to communicate with her deaf grandparents. Jane McCullough, a 6-month-old tot, has gone viral after her mom posted a TikTok of her daughter “babbling in sign ...

Correction: The original video with this piece did not include captioning for some of the American Sign Language seen on screen. The video has been updated to include ...

In Siân Heder's Oscar-nominated coming-of-age film "CODA," the Rossi family living room is a place the foursome gathers for big conversations -- from the difficult and awkward to the celebratory. The ...

Tufts faculty members on May 8 officially passed a proposal allowing School of Arts and Sciences students to count American Sign Language (ASL) courses toward Part I of the foreign language ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court has approved the official guidelines for Filipino Sign Language (FSL) interpreting in ...

THE Supreme Court en banc has approved the rules on Filipino Sign Language (FSL) Interpreting in the Judiciary, that aims to ...