Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for visually communicating the meaning of information to the hearing impaired by associating written or spoken language to sign language animations. Such systems comprise associating textual or audio symbols with known sign language symbols. New sign language symbols can also be generated in response to information which does not have a known sign language symbol. The information can be treated as elements which can be weighted according to each element's contribution to the overall meaning of the information sought to be communicated. Such systems can graphically display representations of both known and new sign language symbols to a hearing impaired person.