Ever since Rose Ayling-Ellis became the first deaf contestant to compete on Strictly Come Dancing, the number of people wanting to learn British Sign Language (BSL) has surged. Ayling-Ellis is often ...

Anthony Sinclair, who has been profoundly deaf since birth, launched the initiative after receiving funding from a council ...

LONDON — One doesn’t need to know sign language to understand what Michael Connolly feels about his colleagues’ efforts to break down the barriers posed by his deafness. When asked what he thought of ...

Students studying British Sign Language and Deaf Studies were given the opportunity to gain experience through interactive ...

London — You don’t need to know sign language to understand what Michael Connolly feels about his colleagues’ efforts to break down the barriers posed by his deafness. When asked what he thought of ...

A 72-year-old student has won an award for learning British Sign Language (BSL) after experiencing episodes of sudden hearing loss. Tim Jackson was named winner of the Skills for Life Achievement ...

Premieres Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app POV recounts the powerful story of Lawand, a young Kurdish boy, deaf since birth and his transformative journey to communicate through ...

This year's Strictly Come Dancing's Deaf contestant Rose Ayling-Ellis has inspired Strictly fans to want to learn British sign language. Rose and Strictly pro dancer Giovanni Pernice gave a ...

Alex Greenwood will warm up for England’s game against Sweden tonight wearing a shirt with her name spelled in British Sign Language. The Lionesses have been given special warm-up tops which use the ...

An arbitrary link between linguistic form and meaning is generally considered a universal feature of language. However, iconic (i.e., nonarbitrary) mappings between properties of meaning and features ...