A sign language law passed a decade ago has “brought significant benefits” to deaf people, a Holyrood committee has said, but ...

"It's heart-breaking, because all you want to do is talk to your child." For mother-of-two Amanda Webb, trying to communicate with her deaf son has been a challenging journey. She is one of more than ...

Not so long ago, deaf children were punished in the UK for using sign language in the classroom. Recounting his experience in the 1960s, one deaf person told one of my colleagues many years later: “I ...

The human body is the greatest form of expression. From the clothes one wears to the things one says and does, expression is a form of self art. Sign language is a form of expression — one that ...

Audrey Cameron works for the University of Edinburgh, and we received funding from the Royal Society to develop new environmental science signs. Creating British sign language (BSL) signs for abstract ...