New sign language laws in Northern Ireland will have a "huge impact", a deaf teenager has said. Ellie-May, 14, gave evidence at Stormont to assembly members on the Communities Committee as they ...

Investment by Beijing has transformed the country’s institutions despite lingering questions about research quality and intellectual freedom ...

The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.

Liverpool have announced a landmark commitment to provide British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters at each home match for the ...

A council says it is launching a sign language course as part of its adult skills programme. Lincolnshire County Council said its introduction to British Sign Language (BSL) modules would be available ...

A group of children have learned sign language to allow them to communicate with family and friends thanks to a £10,000 grant ...

Disney Animation's 'Songs in Sign Language' will feature three new animated musical sequences from recent movies reimagined in American Sign Language.

A contestant on the UK's first British Sign Language (BSL) dating show says he hopes it teaches people about the deaf community - and shows they can "have banter" too. Oliver Scott is among the first ...

The first ever British Sign Language dating series is coming to TV screens soon, just in time for Valentine's Day. Launching on LumoTV, the world's leading Deaf-led streaming platform for sign ...

Hold My Hand focuses exclusively on signers – who can be refreshingly blunt and extremely revealing. Heroda and Hermon Berhane, the deaf identical twin presenters, say it reveals their community in a ...

Leicester Cathedral says it has discovered evidence of sign language being used at a wedding held there 450 years ago. Cathedral bosses said documents found at the local record office showed sign ...