A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures.

The ASL Studies certificate may be helpful to anyone in the health and education fields for learning to communicate with and understand individuals who are deaf. The certificate is a nominal ...

The ASL performance minor focuses on forms of creative expression that are unique to Deaf communities and signed language. You will develop conceptual, analytical, and artistic skills through analysis ...

The ASL and Deaf Cultural Studies immersion prepares students in the multi-disciplinary study of American Sign Language and Deaf Culture. Open to hearing and deaf students, courses address topics in ...

Increase your spatial reasoning, reaction time, and body language. The right-hemisphere of the brain is frequently used for spatial reasoning and research shows that people who use sign language to ...

American Sign Language (ASL) & the Deaf Studies major takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in American and world society. The program promotes the ...

The most widely-cited study on the prevalence of American Sign Language showed that ASL was the third-most-frequent language to require a court interpreter. This doesn’t mean ASL is the fourth ...

Currently researchers and university professors have limited evidence related to how typically hearing adult learners acquire American Sign Language (ASL) as a second language. We investigated ...

Enrollments have soared in American Sign Language classes at colleges around the United States, but many of the students are not planning to become sign-language interpreters or teachers for the deaf.