For decades, people believed that language was mostly arbitrary—words and signs with no direct connection to their meaning. But our new...

Imagine being able to look up an unfamiliar ASL sign by simply demonstrating it to your device. Whether you're a fluent signer or just...

A study published in The Journal of Special Education  (2024) by Erin Finton, Wyatte C. Hall, Michele Berke, Ronald Bye, Stuart Ikeda,...

Our recent study, in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development " Hearing parents as sign language learners" by Elana...

Research tells us that exposing deaf and hard of hearing children to ASL from an early age has a wide range of benefits, spanning...

Understanding the Dynamics of Visual Attention in ASL Learning American Sign Language (ASL) is all about seeing and using signs to...

Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Arielle Spellun, Megan Herlihy, Emily Taketa, Amber Graham, Matthew Fasano-McCarron,...

For children born deaf or hard of hearing, timely access to language is a critical factor in ensuring healthy brain development....

A dataset to train computers to recognize isolated signs.

Deaf children exposed to ASL before 6 months show age-appropriate vocabulary growth, matching peers with deaf parents.

Delayed ASL exposure affects how deaf children process signs.

Pointing helps deaf children learn names for objects.

Parents' ASL skills don’t impact toddlers’ vocabulary but are crucial as children grow, highlighting the need for early exposure.

Philadelphia Deaf signers show a unique signing style called dominance reversal, reflecting how social factors shape regional ASL variations