Why Subtitles Aren't Enough: The Growing Demand for ASL in Entertainment ...

After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley’s baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.

For Weinberg sophomore Elia Silbey, enrolling at Northwestern meant the end of their American Sign Language journey. After two years of studying it in high school, they said the University’s limited ...