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Development of Signed Language - Coggle Diagram
Development of Signed Language
4) Deaf Education Today
Today, there are many programs that deaf students can attend at a variety of different schools
The increase in these programs has led to more awareness of sign language, Deaf culture and Deaf history
Many schools have adopted a bilingual approach for instruction which emphasizes the use of deaf students natural language, ASL, so they can learn English as a second language
Cued speech is also sometimes used to leach spoken English to deaf students. It consists o eight handshapes at four locations near the mouth to show vowel phonemes
2) Sign Systems
After Stokoe's revolutionary research on ASL, many others began their own sign language research
As a result, many new sign systems were introduced during the early 1970s
This led to confusion among many and most of the systems faded away except for ASL ad "a manual representation of English"
Some sign systems include the
Rochester Method
which consisted of fingerspelling every word in English word order, the
Combined Method
which included the use of both oral and manual instruction
3) Purpose of Sign Systems
Sign systems were put into place at schools with the intention of teaching deaf students English which led to more English-based sign systems being used:
Seeing Essential English (SEE I)
: manual English that used one sign for English words that have two meanings and created signs for word endings such as -ing, -ness, etc.
Signing Exact English (SEE II)
: Similar to SEE I but uses signs for pronouns and affixes such as "to be"
Due to these and many different sign systems being used, there became instances of students not understanding the sign systems used in other schools
1) Evolution of Signs
Like other languages, ASL changes over time
Researchers suggest this is because signers tend to focus their gaze on the lower part of a persons face and therefore signs have evolved to fit in this space
To this day, there are generational gaps between signs used by the elderly and by younger people
5) Further Developments in the Deaf Community
More and more states are coming to recognize ASL as a language
ASL course enrollments continue to go up
Children of Deaf Adults (CODA) have become a more organized group that share many life experience in growing up between two cultures
Sign language interpreters have become professionalized and are becoming more accessible
At national events like the Deaflympics, a type of international sign language called Gestuno is used