Learning fingerspelling can be a good place to start with American Sign Language, and can be useful to study even if you aren't hearing-impaired.

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.

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.

Developed by NVIDIA and the American Society for Deaf Children, a new AI-driven website known as Signs invites people to learn how to sign.

ASL doesn’t have a direct translation of every English word, he told me. If you want to sign “desperate,” you might just sign the word “want,” but with the appropriate facial and body ...