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Deaf Community Chapter 6 - Coggle Diagram
Deaf Community Chapter 6
Sign variations
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Some variation categories: ethnic, gender, regional
Technological developments: hearing use cell phone, deaf use pager because it's mostly used to text
Sign systems
Teach methods
Rochester method: fingerspell everything on same level as mouth to allow for lipreading at the same time
Combined method: some oral and some sign, sometimes SimCom depending on the school
Total communication: incorporation of aural, manual, and oral modes of communication
1956 Bilingual Act - some school for deaf children adopted bilingual approach for basis of instruction
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Cued speech: 8 handshapes, 4 locations represent syllables - enhance the understanding of speech
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Fingerspelling
Representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes of numeral systems, using only the hands
Used in Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Assyrian antiquity
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Used for: secrecy, silence, literacy
Charles de la Fin (1692) developed system with each letter associated with a part of the body that started with that letter and vowels on the fingers (BSL)
Modern manual alphabet
Fingerspelling is not a substitute for signs, 8.7% of casual signing
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Many deaf adults are unhappy with young people's letter E handshape with the space in between fingertips and thumb
2009 - 91,763 students enrolled in ASL classes; 16.4% increase since 2006
Infants and children
The research
Hearing babies with deaf parents started communicating with sign language at an earlier age than hearing children with spoken language
Babies use hand gestures before talking by pointing and reaching, enjoy closer bonds with parents through signing, and develop larger vocabularies early on
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International signs
Gestuno
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Approximately 1,500 signs and gestures with universal qualities
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NOT a language, not meant to replace any sign language
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