OLATHE, Kan. — Recently, there has been a push in the local deaf community to increase the use of American Sign Language beyond the deaf and hard of hearing. At Olathe Public Schools, high ...

At least 35 states now recognize ASL as a language for public schools and well over 100 four-year universities accept it for foreign language requirements. Experts say the number of two-year ...

In addition to American Sign Language, School District 186 offers Spanish, French, German and Latin. Around one million people use ASL as their main way to communicate, according to Communication ...

or ASL, among its accepted world language for public schools, and in 2004 it added teaching certification requirements for ASL. The state also offers a certification for sign-language interpreters ...

Amid a budget crisis, Seattle Public Schools leaders are considering closing up to 21 schools, and one of them is TOPS, the only K-8 school in the district with a program for the deaf and hard of ...

Durham Public Schools faced another sickout Thursday ... The group included 10 American Sign Language interpreters and seven language facilitators. “We have decided to take the day off to ...

An American Sign Language teacher at Red Mountain High ... She worked in the Queen Creek Unified School District before joining Mesa Public Schools, according to her LinkedIn profile.