Growing up in a Korean community in California, sound artist Christine Sun Kim was taught to “tone things down” and not be so expressive at family gatherings. That sentiment bled into her work. Even ...

Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...