NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times.

If recent trends in the Ivy League are anything to go by, 2019 is the year the tide turns on ASL education in the US.

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language.

In American Sign Language, finding a visual way to represent an inner identity can be complicated, and the Deaf community hasn’t reached consensus on many signs.

American sign language (ASL) is a visual language using hand gestures, facial expressions, and body movements, primarily used by the Deaf community in North America.

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"Sign language is very directional," said Bradbury. "When an action is happening, it's simply happening to somebody. So to try and express this abstract idea, you have to sort of put the person there.