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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., Bickford J. A., Cohen J., Cormier K., Fenson L., Herman R., Jansma S., Kaplan E., Kubus O., Kyle J., Meir I., Nunnally D.J.   +11 more
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An Adequate Model for the Development of English Reading Skills [PDF]

Human Research in Rehabilitation
The focus of this article is on the development of adequate English reading skills. To delineate necessary components for a phonemic-based language, it is necessary to compare two broad frameworks--the Qualitative Similarity Hypothesis (QSH) and the ...
Peter V. Paul
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American Sign Language Recognition Using Leap Motion Controller with Machine Learning Approach

Sensors, 2018
Sign language is intentionally designed to allow deaf and dumb communities to convey messages and to connect with society. Unfortunately, learning and practicing sign language is not common among society; hence, this study developed a sign language ...
Teak-Wei Chong, Boon-Giin Lee
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Pengenalan Alfabet American Sign Language Menggunakan K-Nearest Neighbors Dengan Ekstraksi Fitur Histogram Of Oriented Gradients

JuTISI (Jurnal Teknik Informatika dan Sistem Informasi), 2020
Sign Language use to communicate to people with dissabilities. American Sign Language (ASL) one of popular sign language. Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) can be use as feature extraction. Then feature stored in database.
Muhammad Ezar Al Rivan, Hafiz Irsyad, Kevin Kevin, Arta Tri Narta   +3 more
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Techno-talk: An American Sign Language (ASL) Translator

2016 International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), 2016
In this paper, an accurate implementation of American Sign Language Translator is presented. It is a portable electronic hand glove to be used by any deaf/mute person to communicate effectively with the othesr who don't understand sign language. It provides the visual and audible output on an LCD and through a speaker respectively.
ARIF, ARSLAN, RIZVI, SYED TAHIR HUSSAIN, Jawaid, Iqra, Waleed, Muhammad Adam, Shakeel, Muhammad Raheel   +4 more
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“From White Deaf People’s Adversity to Black Deaf Gain”: A Proposal for a New Lens of Black Deaf Educational History

Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2020
This paper re-visits Bauman and Murray’s (2014) “Deaf Gain,” using the perspectives of Black Deaf history.  Due to the enforcement of the Oral policy in U.S.
Rezenet Tsegay Moges
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Syntactic priming in American Sign Language. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Psycholinguistic studies of sign language processing provide valuable opportunities to assess whether language phenomena, which are primarily studied in spoken language, are fundamentally shaped by peripheral biology. For example, we know that when given
Matthew L Hall, Victor S Ferreira, Rachel I Mayberry   +2 more
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DeepASL: Enabling Ubiquitous and Non-Intrusive Word and Sentence-Level Sign Language Translation

, 2018
There is an undeniable communication barrier between deaf people and people with normal hearing ability. Although innovations in sign language translation technology aim to tear down this communication barrier, the majority of existing sign language ...
Chai Xiujuan, Du Yong, Graves Alex, Kanwal Kehkashan, Praveen Nikhita, Socher Richard   +5 more
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Validation of the Substance Abuse Screener in American Sign Language (SAS--ASL). [PDF]

Rehabilitation Psychology, 2012
The study objectives were to adapt and validate a substance use disorder (SUD) screening instrument in American Sign Language (ASL) to be used to identify those deaf individuals who have a high probability of having an SUD. The goal was to develop an accurate screening instrument that balanced sensitivity and specificity while imposing minimal response
Debra Guthmann, Linda E. Lazowski, Dennis Moore, Allen W. Heinemann, Jared Embree   +4 more
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American Sign Language Translation Using Wearable Inertial and Electromyography Sensors for Tracking Hand Movements and Facial Expressions

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
A sign language translation system can break the communication barrier between hearing-impaired people and others. In this paper, a novel American sign language (ASL) translation method based on wearable sensors was proposed.
Yutong Gu, Chao Zheng, Masahiro Todoh, Fusheng Zha   +3 more
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