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Kraig Klingenberg’s road to teaching the popular new American Sign Language course at Duke was circuitous. In grade school Klingenberg had a classmate whose mom was Deaf, and he became interested in ...

Fairfield police recently received lessons from a high school American Sign Language club to learn signs they could use when encountering deaf or hard-of-hearing community members. Fairfield ...

turned to what he knows best: prayer. At the end of an hours-long ... They discussed adding language to the rule for the budget resolution that said the House would not consider the final bill ...

For millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals around the world, communication barriers can make everyday interactions challenging. Traditional solutions, like sign language interpreters, are ...

Gaelic-language crime drama The Island (An T-Eilean) aired earlier this year, with Welsh thriller The One That Got Away following swiftly after back in February. Now, though, the BBC tackles ...

Abstract: In the field of sign language generation, Transformer-based models have been widely studied, but their quadratic computational complexity poses challenges. State Space Models (SSMs), like ...

Sign language has one great advantage over the spoken word, Rose Ayling-Ellis explained in her deafness documentary Old Hands, New Tricks earlier this month. Every gesture resonates with emotion.

Daniel is deaf, but his probation officer has neglected to book a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter, so the conversation plays out as an agitated series of hopeless gestures. The official ...

Proud of our great Arabic language. Proud of our history and identity. I am optimistic about Arab generations — renewed in thought and knowledge yet firmly rooted in their culture.” ...

Sometimes, I am surprised when I receive letters from some leaders of Tamil Nadu; none of them are signed in the Tamil language. If you are proud of Tamil, then I would request everyone at least sign ...