Take, for example, the "We Want the 'I Love You' ASL Handshape Emoji" petition. It was started by Western Oregon University professor C.M. Hall and Oregon Association of the Deaf interim president ...

Enter Signily, a keyboard that includes basic American Sign Language handshapes. Signily is a part of the efforts of ASLized, a nonprofit that focuses on advancing ASL within the digital landscape ...

The way we speak today isn’t the way that people talked thousands—or even hundreds—of years ago. William Shakespeare’s line, “to thine own self be true,” is today’s “be yourself.” ...

They say that the information content of the 45 handshapes that make up sign language is higher than the information content of phonemes, the building blocks of the spoken word. In other words ...