American Sign Language literature (ASL literature) is one of the most important shared cultural experiences in the American deaf community. Literary genres...

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...

American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf African Americans...

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...

Baby sign language is the use of manual signing allowing infants and toddlers to communicate emotions, desires, and objects prior to spoken language development...

Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign-language that was once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard from the early 18th century...

to legitimize ASL and introduce people to the richness of American Sign Language literature. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Valli attended the Austine...

broader tradition of English-language literature but also includes literature produced in languages other than English. The American Revolutionary Period (1775–1783)...

of American Sign Language at home, so such data must come from other sources. While modern estimates indicate that American Sign Language was signed by...

references to sign language (simplified Chinese: 手语; traditional Chinese: 手語; pinyin: shǒuyǔ; lit. 'hand language') in Chinese literature date from the...