American sign language (ASL) is a visual language using hand gestures, facial expressions, and body movements, primarily used by the Deaf community in North America.

American Sign Language ProgramOverviewWelcome to the American Sign Language (ASL) program, housed in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science at the University of Colorado! We are a ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language.

For example, there is the Journal for American Sign Language and Literatures (JASLL), a website for scholarly works to be published in a video-based medium.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times.

American Sign Language Reveals Wordplay Beyond Sound In a visual language, a subtle hand movement can help you get the joke.

American Sign Language (ASL) users are no strangers to video chatting. The technology—which has been around since 1927, when AT&T experimented with the first rudimentary videophones—lets deaf ...