Deaf in a hearing world, Elias Goutoufas grew up in silence. When his teachers delivered lectures, they often turned away from him, still speaking as they wrote an equation on the board or walked the ...

Laura Gardner still remembers how amazing it felt the first time she had a real conversation with her older daughter when she was a tiny toddler just learning to speak. Gardner, of West Bridgewater, ...

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures.

Afterwork phone calls or Zoom hangouts with family and friends -- or even your therapist -- have become a crucial part of how we stay connected and sane during the Covid-19 pandemic. But for 30 ...