Khyiana Tate is on a mission to teach others, and she is not letting her deafness stop her. Like many teenagers, Tate is working toward getting her driver’s license as well as graduation from high ...

Gainesville native Kentrell Martin is living his dream. He is an award-winning author of American Sign Language books who travels the country on book tours, visiting schools, and teaching American ...

High school senior Khyiana Tate, who is deaf, grew up signing with her friends and family, but the 18-year-old rarely saw anyone who looked like her in sign language books — so she created her own.

For many, communication is perceived as verbal interaction, but for some, a simple movement of the hand speaks for itself. In his debut children's book, "Shelly Goes Outdoors," author Kentrell Martin ...

An app that translates a selection of books into sign language has made the move on to Apple iOS, in a bid to help more than 30 million deaf children across the world. StorySign first arrived in ...

According to the Survey of Income and Program Participation, nearly 1 million people in the United States are functionally deaf, while 10 million are hard of hearing. If there’s a member of your ...

If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, the benefits would be extraordinary. It would not only eradicate the biggest ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is one of four international innovators selected to create cost-effective packages of high-quality accessible children’s ...

Very young children can communicate with sign language even before they can talk. That was one reason about 15 families came to try out the beginnings of sign language Saturday at a new class offered ...