“Wonder,” the children’s book by R.J. Palacio that was adapted into a 2017 movie starring Julia Roberts, is headed to Broadway as a new musical, Lionsgate along with Palacio and producer Jill Furman ...

Straphangers who are deaf or hard-of-hearing now have access to on-demand sign language interpreters at select locations through an MTA app, the transit agency announced Monday. The Convo app allows ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - An estimated half-million people in the United States use American Sign Language. Most of us don’t and if you’ve ever found yourself trying to have a conversation with a deaf or ...

JERUSALEM, Israel – With war and conflict being so much a part of everyday life, an Israeli company has developed a free real-time and on-demand sign language interpretation app for members of the ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) CO-FOUNDER OF ‘SIGN BOOK’, ASHRAF ODEH, SAYING: “My father and mother are deaf, they suffered from their inability to access various services and information due to the ...

The Ryan Coogler film “Sinners” has had a landmark year. When the flick first hit theaters in April, it quickly became one of the highest-grossing films ever produced by Warner Bros. The movie — which ...

TUI has announced a partnership with SignLive to provide customers with the option to have their conversations with the firm interpreted into British Sign Language (BSL). Credit: SHVETS production In ...

For most people, an interaction as simple as ordering a custom birthday cake or calling for a tow truck seems simple but for the deaf and hard of hearing, tasks like these can leave them searching for ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The initiative, called SVisual, allows the bank's customers to receive ...