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Access to Healthcare Services for the Deaf: A Scoping Review of Reviews. [PDF]
Health ExpectABSTRACT Background Cultural and linguistic minorities are at a higher risk of poorer health, poorer health outcomes, and poorer quality of care, in part due to a lack of access to healthcare services. Inequities in access to healthcare services have been found in several Deaf populations and are associated with poorer physical and mental health ...
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Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2021 ASL-LEX is a publicly available, large-scale lexical database for American Sign Language (ASL). We report on the expanded database (ASL-LEX 2.0) that contains 2,723 ASL signs.
Z. Sehyr +3 more
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The Development and Evaluation of a New ASL Text Comprehension Task
Frontiers in Communication, 2020 Being able to comprehend a language entails not only mastery of its syntax, lexicon, or phonology, but also the ability to use language to construct meaning, draw inferences, and make connections to world knowledge. However, most available assessments of
Patrick Rosenburg +3 more
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Parent American Sign Language skills correlate with child–but not toddler–ASL vocabulary size
Language Acquisition, 2023 Most deaf children have hearing parents who do not know a sign language at birth and are at risk of limited language input during early childhood. Studying these children as they learn a sign language has revealed that timing of first-language exposure ...
Lauren Berger +3 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Early bilingual exposure, especially exposure to two languages in different modalities such as speech and sign, can profoundly affect an individual’s language, culture and cognition.
Ioulia eKovelman +4 more
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JuTISI (Jurnal Teknik Informatika dan Sistem Informasi), 2020 Sign languages have various types, one of which is American Sign Language (ASL). In this study, ASL images from the handshape alphabet were extracted using Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) then these features were used for the classification of ...
Muhammad Ezar Al Rivan +1 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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Fingerspelling as a Novel Gateway into Reading Fluency in Deaf Bilinguals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Studies have shown that American Sign Language (ASL) fluency has a positive impact on deaf individuals' English reading, but the cognitive and cross-linguistic mechanisms permitting the mapping of a visual-manual language onto a sound-based language have
Adam Stone +5 more
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Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages: Progress and Problems
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In contrast to scholars and signers in the nineteenth century, William Stokoe conceived of American Sign Language (ASL) as a unique linguistic tradition with roots in nineteenth-century langue des signes française, a conception that is apparent in his ...
Justin M. Power
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How2Sign: A Large-scale Multimodal Dataset for Continuous American Sign Language [PDF]
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2020 One of the factors that have hindered progress in the areas of sign language recognition, translation, and production is the absence of large annotated datasets. Towards this end, we introduce How2Sign, a multimodal and multiview continuous American Sign
A. Duarte +6 more
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