Now engineers have developed a prototype called “The Language of Glove,” a Bluetooth-enabled, sensor-packed glove that reads the hand gestures of sign language and translates them into text.

Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time ...

Abstract. Codes of ethics exist for most professional associations whose members do research on, for, or with sign language communities. However, these ethical codes are silent regarding the need to ...

In addition, there are many other ways to communicate such as sign language, whistled languages, the Braille tactile writing system, Morse code, and many others.

Sign Language Takes Over Human Rights Watch! Access to sign language, including in education and public services, is critical for the human rights of deaf people. On the first International Day of ...

Dorothy Casterline, who as a young researcher at Gallaudet University in the early 1960s helped write the first comprehensive dictionary of American Sign Language, a book that revolutionized the ...