Medication-Related Experience of Deaf American Sign Language Users [PDF]
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2023 Background: Previous studies showed that deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals have low health literacy related to prescription labels. This study examined the DHH's experience with understanding prescription labels and how technology can impact ...
Mariam Paracha +6 more
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Deep Learning Technology to Recognize American Sign Language Alphabet [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Historically, individuals with hearing impairments have faced neglect, lacking the necessary tools to facilitate effective communication. However, advancements in modern technology have paved the way for the development of various tools and software ...
Bader Alsharif +4 more
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A Particle of Indefiniteness in American Sign Language
Linguistic Discovery, 2003 We describe here the characteristics of a very frequently-occurring ASL indefinite focus particle, which has not previously been recognized as such. We show here that, despite its similarity to the question sign "WHAT", the particle is distinct from that
Carol Neidle +2 more
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Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Considerable evidence now shows that all languages, signed and spoken, exhibit a significant amount of iconicity. We examined how the visual-gestural modality of signed languages facilitates iconicity for different kinds of lexical meanings compared to ...
Marcus Perlman +3 more
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Identifying the Correlations Between the Semantics and the Phonology of American Sign Language and British Sign Language: A Vector Space Approach [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Over the history of research on sign languages, much scholarship has highlighted the pervasive presence of signs whose forms relate to their meaning in a non-arbitrary way.
Aurora Martinez del Rio +4 more
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A Survey on Sign Language Recognition and Training Module [PDF]
ITM Web of Conferences, 2023 Communication among the deaf and non-verbal communities has long reliedon sign language recognition. From all researchers around from early electric signal-based sign language identification to more recent recognition using machine/deep learning ...
Anjana Devi V. +2 more
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Second language learning of depiction in a different modality: The case of sign language acquisition
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 This study investigated the acquisition of depicting signs (DS) among students learning a signed language as their second-modality and second-language (M2L2) language. Depicting signs, broadly described, illustrate actions and states.
Kim B. Kurz +2 more
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Sign Language Recognition: High Performance Deep Learning Approach Applyied To Multiple Sign Languages [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 In this paper we present a high performance Deep Learning architecture based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The proposed architecture is effective as it is capable of recognizing and analyzing with high accuracy different Sign language datasets ...
El Zaar Abdellah +2 more
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Inclusion and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: Finding Asylum in the LRE
Education Sciences, 2022 The movement towards inclusive public education for deaf and hard of hearing children (DHH) has steadily gathered momentum during the last fifty years.
Julia A. Silvestri, Maria C. Hartman
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