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PROVO, Utah -- Every year, hilarious photos of children with Santa surface on social media, but a woman's photo of her one-year-old baby using sign language to signal for "help" has gone viral. Kerry ...

Millions of people use sign language, but the methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that ...

A little boy creeped out while sitting on Santa's lap used baby sign language to tell his parents he was not feeling safe with Old Saint Nick. Kerry Spencer shared an old photo of her son hanging out ...

A chance encounter between a teenager and a blind and deaf man on a cross-country flight last week has gone viral on social media — making the experience now one the pair will never forget. On June ...

We all sometimes stare at our bawling baby and wish they could just tell us what they need… but what if that was actually possible? What if our tiny child, whose voice box is not yet mature enough to ...

Cara Daly, 15, spoke with the passenger one letter at a time in his hands. A California teen who recently helped a fellow passenger aboard an Alaska Airlines flight using sign language said today that ...

Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.

You can tell your baby is frustrated. But what do they want? A bottle, a diaper change, world peace? You probably often wish you could solve this mystery. But it’s not easy to do when your baby can’t ...