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advancement of sign language - Coggle Diagram
advancement of sign language
we are seeing signs change from the 1800s to make our signing space smaller
older signs were more gestural to show action
high visual acuity, signers fix their gaze on lower half od signers facde
eventually the older signs will fade out-historical change
changes are made w 1 or more parameter
parents or older signers did not understand "new" signs
ASL had French influences from clerk when Gallaudet went to france
proliferation of signs during the 1970s
stokeo's research and identification provoked more interest in sign sytems
artificial sign systems were adopted and used in curriculums for school
with time most faded away, two remain: ASL and "manual representation of English"
ASL is not static undergoes continuous change
the approach at first was to "graft the grammar of spoken language onto sign language"
Rochester method: finger speaking every word in English grammar, at mouth level to lipread and read fingerspelling
it lasted 1878-1980, cons: it was staring to the hand, hard to view fingerspelling, there was no non manual marker which made communicating even harder
ASL influence began to "creep" in, ex: the word down would be dragged down
combined method by Thomas h. Gallaudet, trying to combine French sign language education with the English oral education
milan confrenece, some school became oral, while most were combined
public law 94-142, 1975 free appropriate education for ever child with disability/disabilities
admin unfamiliar w deaf education were more open to artificial English based sign systems
SEE 1: one word for the sign like English, for ex. right, and new signs for word endings; '-ing,' '-ness,'
new signs for different verbs, "A" handshake for am, I, is, or "R" fore are
SEE 2 uses traditional ASL, created signs for pronouns and affixes-- is used in mainstream schools
SE or signed English: one sign prinicple, invited many initialized signs and affixes-- is still used in parts of he country