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Judy Cohen from Lakeside Education Services gets us up to speed on some of the terms and phrases her students are using.

While beginners may want to save time and money by turning to online resources to learn sign language, Elizabeth Castellvi, ...

Toddlers can pick up new words just by overhearing conversations. Now, new research suggests that some intelligent dogs can expand their vocabulary in just the same way.

If you’re hoping to pick up a new skill in 2026, you may want to consider learning sign language and open the door to clearer ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Alexia Serda, an integrated health science sophomore, practices signing in proper American Sign Language sentence structure during the ASL Sentence Structure workshop by tutor Ruby Mendieta Wednesday ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...