Few, however, cover American Sign Language (ASL). That's unfortunate since there are many reasons you might want or need to learn it. Here, we detail our five favorite apps we tested for learning ASL.

At a small house in Kansas City, Kansas, Debbie Buchholz teaches a weekly American Sign Language class for deaf refugees. Buchholz is the pastor of Deaf International Community Church, based in ...

So, you want to learn sign language on a budget. You could be motivated by a desire to understand deaf friends better, communicate with relatives who are hard of hearing, or express yourself after ...

If parents don’t learn sign language, children may be deprived of language until they go to school. In this 2006 file photo, Doug Foley signs with his deaf daughter Hannah, then 20 months old.

More than 90 percent of deaf children in the U.S. are born to hearing parents. For them, the path forward can be difficult and also controversial. The advent of cochlear implant technology has the ...

Pamela Watts: Hall says less than 10 percent of deaf children in America learn sign language. Jesus didn't start learning ASL until he was 11 years old at Rhode Island School for the deaf.

A post about a teenage son who "blew up" at his parents for not being willing to learn sign language to better communicate with their mute daughter has gone viral on Reddit, where it has received ...