Rochester Institute of Technology

Alm and Fitch awarded NSF grant to study visual prosody in ASL in collaboration with Gallaudet University

The project’s goal is to create an American Sign Language (ASL) data resource that focuses on documenting visual prosody, which includes, for example, non-manual markers that convey meaning and ...
The New York Times

How the NHL’s American Sign Language TV broadcasts bring the game to a ‘marginalized’ audience

Would Matthew Tkachuk get there? Anyone watching the 2024 Stanley Cup Final between the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers could feel the tension and anticipation as the Panthers’ Tkachuk sprinted ...
The New York Times

Guggenheim Offers the Poetry of Motion: Sign Language Verses

The museum’s poet in residence for 2024 is putting poetry by deaf and hard-of-hearing artists on display. Abby Haroun performing at the Guggenheim on Wednesday night. Among her poems was one ...

Chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Now only two are left.

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question ...
National Hockey League

'NHL in ASL' to return for 2025 Stanley Cup Final

NEW YORK --NHL in ASL, a Sports Emmy-nominated alternate telecast dedicated completely to the Deaf and hard of hearing community using American Sign Language, returns for the 2025 Stanley Cup Final, ...
National Hockey League

'NHL in ASL' to return, beginning with Winter Classic

NEW YORK – The National Hockey League (NHL) and P-X-P announced today that NHL in ASL, an alternate telecast dedicated completely to the Deaf community using American Sign Language (ASL), will be ...