When 16-year-old Amy Pruter listens to her favorite songs nowadays, she translates the lyrics into American Sign Language, her expressive hands giving the silent words a music and poetry of their own.

The Office of Sign Language Interpreting Services promotes cross-cultural communication among Deaf and hard of hearing members of the NYCPS community.

American Sign Language has its own grammar and meanings; it's not simply English expressed through gestures. It and other sign languages are rich with symbolism, history and culture.

Should you be interested, the Sign Language Translation Glove is currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign. Assuming everything works out, a pledge of €595 (about US$704) will get you one.

We strapped on the AcceleGlove and gave the fundamental program a go, training our hands to spell out the alphabet -- with a fair bit of help from inventor Jose Hernandez-Rebollar.

An curved arrow pointing right. Hand Talk is an app which is designed to allow better communication between deaf and non-deaf people. The app, which has already been downloaded more than one ...

Fifth grader Jaiden Jackson, left, and Danielle Hutchins, a third grader, make the sign for artichoke during a meeting of the sign language club at Dr. Gustavus Brown Elementary School.

Jerusalem Post / Israel News 'I love you' hand sculptures seeks to promote sign language use One of the figurines will be one-and-a-half meters high, and will be taken around the country. A hand ...