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Deaf American Catholics welcome Vatican's sign language service The Vatican's new 'No One Excluded' project offers interpreters in Italian and American Sign Language Updated: April 29, 2021 05:52 AM GMT Trending The Vatican's YouTube channel now allows people with communication challenges to fully follow Pope Francis. (Photo: vaticannews) When the Easter livestream of Pope Francis' general audience and the Angelus was broadcast for the first time in American Sign Language on the Vatican's YouTube channel, the deaf Catholic ministry group in the US state of Texas took particular notice. Redem...

Deaf Catholics applaud Vatican’s sign language service on YouTube channel This is a screen shot of Pope Francis' general audience April 21, 2021, from the Vatican American Sign Language YouTube site. The service started March 31, 2021. (CNS screen grab/Vatican News via YouTube) By Jo Ann Zuñiga • Catholic News Service • Posted April 29, 2021 HOUSTON (CNS) — When the Easter livestream of Pope Francis’ general audience and the Angelus was broadcast for the first time in American Sign Language on the Vatican’s YouTube channel, the deaf Catholic ministry group in Texas took partic...

BU researchers inspire a bilingual approach to teaching deaf children By Megan Woolhouse When Boston’s Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing celebrated its 150th anniversary in November 2019, it achieved another milestone: it became the only “dual-language school” in the US to teach both American Sign Language and English. To an outsider unfamiliar with the world of deaf education, the move might not seem very dramatic or edgy—but it was. American Sign Language isn’t universally embraced in deaf education; most deaf children in the US are taught the same English curric...