Would taking Italian and Sign Language at a community college this summer look good on my college app?

I’m a high school junior. I currently take Spanish, but I am interested in trying Italian and American Sign Language too. Would taking these two courses look good on the college application? By the way, I’m taking these courses because they sound interesting and I think they will be fun and useful to know, and […]

Is the ability to use sign language something that would look good to colleges?

I work with disabled students at my school’s Best Buddies club, though none of them are deaf or mute, I still want to try to learn sign language on my own. If after a year or two of hard work learning sign language, and I’m able to create conversations and use it fluently in real […]

A Look at the Complex Spatial Grammar of Russian Sign Language

This comprises the sign language of the deaf community in Russia. This language was used for conveying meaning using hands to show shapes, orientation of the hands, communicating manually and certain patterns using the lips, orientation of arms or body and facial expression to express the thoughts fluidly. The complex spatial grammar of […]

A look at how sign language developed

The origins of American Sign Language (ASL) remain unclear mainly because much of its early development is poorly documented. Signed languages in their premature forms are not preserved. Although researchers can establish the time and the circumstances under which signing was brought to the U.S., still they are not certain about the structure of […]

A Closer Look at Who Invented the Sign Language?

Sign language is a very important mode of communication for people who cannot speak or hear all over the world. This is an effective language which is a medium for imparting education to the deaf communities. If you want to know who invented the sign language, you must go back to the year […]

A Look at the Various Sign Language Phrases Used

Sign language is something which is used as a means of communication between people who are hard of hearing or deaf and cannot speak. They use hand signals, facial expressions, gestures, etc to effectively communicate with each other or with people of other nationalities or regions. Sometimes, sign languages are also used by […]

A Look at the Free Sign Language Charts Available Today

Sign languages are of great importance in deaf communities, which can include the friends, families and even the interpreters of deaf people as well as people who are hard of hearing. Sign language is different for each place, just like spoken language. When two people who use different types of sign languages come […]

A Look at the Positive Aspects of the American Sign Language

American sign language is the language of the deaf community in America and English speaking countries around North America. This language involves the use of body language like hands and the reading of impressions on lips. Body and facial expressions constitute this kind of special communication. The birth of this kind of language was […]