Giphy wants to help you learn sign language with 2,000 new GIFs

Feb16

by Sindy Cator on February 16, 2017 at 8:56 pm

Gifs communicate to the internet generation what words and static images never could. For those interested in learning sign language, they’ll now help to communicate in altogether different ways. Giphy today released an extensive library containing more than 2,000 GIFs of words and phrases in American Sign Language. Clipped from the educational video series Sign With Robert, each image contains text descriptions designed to teach hearing people how to communicate with the deaf. Conversely, it could work the other way too — teaching the deaf to communicate with each other (assuming they don’t already speak ASL). According to Hilari Carl, director and…