If you watched one of Jacksonville’s Hurricane Milton briefings, you saw Mayor Donna Deegan standing at a lectern, a row of officials behind her, a deaf interpreter beside her. If you’re like ...

Schaffer, who is a hearing interpreter, said she started to take an interest in American Sign Language in fifth grade after purchasing a book about the system of words and gestures from her school ...

American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreters help during an emergency. American Sign Language, or ASL, Interpreters are trained professionals who translate spoken messages into visual messages using ...

The cover of "The Interpreter" and author Olivia Abtahi. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Torch Media) Bridging language gaps between families is a reality for a lot of children of immigrants ...

It still isn’t a natural language,” Hanaumi said. “Ninety percent of deaf kids are born to hearing parents and many of them never have access to sign language at all.

Ryals signed and Jensen put her answers into the language I understand, starting with why and how Ryals does this. “I'm profoundly deaf,” she said. “My native language is American Sign Language.