Advocates for education on sign language are making sure children of all abilities are set up for success in the classroom.Sign language is a vital tool for some students and encouraging others to use ...

CAMBRIDGE – Last fall, the preschoolers’ Head Start classroom in this village featured a lot of screaming arguments. While each fight was rooted in typical preschooler problems - sharing, taking turns ...

The debate over online versus in-person classroom learning in K-12 education rages on, driven by concerns over student engagement, academic performance, and social-emotional development. Advocates of ...

Leah Brosky believes the students in Pine River Elementary School should be able to communicate with everyone, so she started teaching sign language after school. The sign language class is a new ...

SALISBURY — Learning to communicate not vocally but using signs was the lesson of the day Saturday in the infant room at the Yadkin Path Montessori School on Bringle Ferry Road, a lesson geared toward ...

SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – It is no secret that it is important to be inclusive, and students and staff at Nansemond Parkway Elementary School in Suffolk take inclusivity seriously. In Kari Maskelony’s ...

Not so long ago, deaf children were punished in the UK for using sign language in the classroom. Recounting his experience in the 1960s, one deaf person told one of my colleagues many years later: “I ...

The lack of scientific terms and vocabulary in many of the world’s sign languages can make science education and research careers inaccessible for deaf people and those with hearing loss. Meet the ...

Students who attend Nansemond Parkway Elementary School are learning the power of pleasantries. They’ve already learned the simplest of small courtesies — “Hello,” “Good morning,” “Thank you” — can, ...