Tag: sign language
Sign officially becomes South Africa’s 12th language
Last month in Pretoria, South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa made sign language the 12th official language during an official ceremony at the Union Buildings.
The...
Sep. 23 is International Day of Sign Languages
September 23 is the United Nations’ International Day of Sign Languages and this year’s theme is “We Sign for Human Rights.” The result of...
Signing Rights for All
During this week, the International
Week of the Deaf, each day of the week has a specific focus under the main theme
of “Sign Language Rights...
Sign Language Reveals Secrets of Spoken Language
According to a new study, sign languages can help reveal hidden aspects of the logical structure of spoken language, but they also highlight its...
New Eye Language Helps Paralyzed People Communicate
A new language called Blink to Speak aims to improve the lives of people with paralysis and have difficulty with speech, and recently won...
Koko, Signing Gorilla, Dies at 46
Koko—the gorilla known for her extraordinary mastery of sign language, and as the primary...
Sign-Language Leads to Better Peripheral Vision
A new report in Frontiers in Psychology found that deaf adults who use British Sign Language (BSL) had significantly faster peripheral vision reaction time...
