Two years after the program’s inception, this semester marks the first time that students have been able to fulfill the University’s language requirement using the American Sign Language (ASL) ...

In any community, language is the most important method for communicating with others. However, for a deaf person like me, it is difficult to connect with many people and speak in the same ways. This ...

A new study of the educational needs of students who are native users of American Sign Language (ASL) shows glaring disparities in their treatment by the U.S Department of Education. A new study of ...

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A new study shows that American Sign Language (ASL) is more linguistically complex than previously understood. In particular, new research documents the emergence of the copula --- a word meaning to ...

A Purdue professor has been honored as a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for her more than five decades of service to language communities. One of the world’s leading figures in sign ...

The College launched an American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf studies minor program this spring. Spearheaded by professors David Reinhart and Matt Andersen, the minor is housed within the Department ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — Ronnie Wilbur, a professor in Purdue’s Department of Linguistics in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Liberal Arts, has been named a fellow of the Linguistic ...

I am writing to offer a unique perspective on the issue of American Sign Language not counting for College of Arts and Sciences Foreign Language requirement, rightfully raised by Rowan Armor’s letter ...

Languages occur because people have the need to communicate, but rarely does the opportunity arise to document the development of a young language. Israeli Sign Language (ISL) began in the 1930s and ...