The Great British Baking Show is breaking barriers this season with its first ever deaf contestant. 27-year-old Tasha Stones is a former ski instructor and current participation officer who enjoys ...

The world’s leading humanoid robot, ASIMO, has recently learnt sign language. The news of this breakthrough came just as I completed Level 1 of British Sign Language (I dare say it took me longer to ...

New sign language laws in Northern Ireland will have a "huge impact", a deaf teenager has said. Ellie-May, 14, gave evidence at Stormont to assembly members on the Communities Committee as they ...

Studying physics is tough as it is, but if you’re deaf it can seem even harder as many of the terms don’t have sign language equivalents. Now the esoteric language of physics has been translated into ...

Emmerdale to mark Deaf Awareness Week with sign language videos - Soap star Laura Norton is mother to two children with ...

Medieval manuscript illustration of a man placing a ring on a woman’s finger. British Library Royal MS 6 E VI, fol. 104/Wiki Commons In February, Leicester Cathedral hosted a British Sign Language ...

Called virtual reality sign language (VRSL), the visual-spatial language system is being created by members of the deaf community to navigate the digital space, due to VR headsets ...