Functional connectivity in task-negative network of the Deaf: effects of sign language experience [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Prior studies investigating cortical processing in Deaf signers suggest that life-long experience with sign language and/or auditory deprivation may alter the brain’s anatomical structure and the function of brain regions typically recruited for auditory
Evie Malaia +2 more
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Sign Language Studies with Chimpanzees in Sanctuary
Animals, 2023 Adult chimpanzees Tatu and Loulis lived at the Fauna Foundation sanctuary. They had acquired signs of American Sign Language (ASL) while young and continued to use them as adults.
Mary Lee Jensvold +2 more
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American Sign Language Interpreting for Deaf Individuals with Disabilities [PDF]
, 2019 Undergraduate Theoretical ...
Mason, Emily, Weaver, Genevieve
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Diverse Treatment Goals in Psoriatic Arthritis: Insights from participants in the PARC cohort
Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.Objective The aim was to examine patient‐reported treatment goals among individuals with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods Participants in the Psoriatic Arthritis Research Consortium (PARC) completed standardized assessments including patient‐reported outcome (PROs) instruments between 2017‐2020.
Astia Allenzara +8 more
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YouTube-ASL: A Large-Scale, Open-Domain American Sign Language-English Parallel Corpus [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Machine learning for sign languages is bottlenecked by data. In this paper, we present YouTube-ASL, a large-scale, open-domain corpus of American Sign Language (ASL) videos and accompanying English captions drawn from YouTube. With ~1000 hours of videos and >2500 unique signers, YouTube-ASL is ~3x as large and has ~10x as many unique signers as the ...
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Adaptation of a Vocabulary Test from British Sign Language to American Sign Language [PDF]
, 2016 This study describes the adaptation process of a vocabulary knowledge test for British Sign Language (BSL) into American Sign Language (ASL) and presents results from the first round of pilot testing with twenty deaf native ASL signers.
Allen T. E. +11 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.As many patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) have chronic pain, understanding how to best assess and manage pain in IA is a priority. Comorbid depression is prevalent in adults with IA, affecting 15% to 39% of people. Although pain and depression are thought to be associated in IA, this concept is largely based on cross‐sectional data.
Natasha Cox +3 more
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Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language
Language and CognitionWhile iconicity has sometimes been defined as meaning transparency, it is better defined as a subjective phenomenon bound to an individual’s perception and influenced by their previous language experience.
Carl Börstell
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Continuous Sign Language Recognition System using Deep Learning with MediaPipe Holistic [PDF]
Wireless Personal Communication, 2024Sign languages are the language of hearing-impaired people who use visuals like the hand, facial, and body movements for communication. There are different signs and gestures representing alphabets, words, and phrases. Nowadays approximately 300 sign languages are being practiced worldwide such as American Sign Language (ASL), Chinese Sign Language ...
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A New 27 Class Sign Language Dataset Collected from 173 Individuals [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 After the interviews, it has been comprehended that speech-impaired individuals who use sign languages have difficulty communicating with other people who do not know sign language. Due to the communication problems, the sense of independence of speech-impaired individuals could be damaged and lead them to socialize less with society.
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