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The importance of teaching Deaf Community Cultural Wealth in family-centered sign language curricula
Diffractions, 2023 Foreign language classes typically include cultural components, and signed languages are no exception. This paper describes a family-centered American Sign Language (ASL) curriculum designed specifically for hearing parents with young deaf children and ...
Leah Caitrin Geer, Razi M. Zarchy
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Language and culture in the Deaf community: a case study in a South African special school
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2017 An ethnographic case study on Deaf culture was done at the Thiboloha Special School in a rural area of the Free State province in South Africa. Two Deaf learners and three Deaf teaching assistants participated in this study.
Stander, Marga , Mcilroy, Guy
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ORGANIZATION PRACTICES OF THE DEAF COMMUNITY: ARTICULATIONS FROM CULTURE
Reflexão & Ação, 2015 The deaf community has often been understood as a safe place in which the deaf difference can be reliably and cozily experienced. The aim of this paper is to understand how the deaf community is organized and narrated as such.
Liane Camatti +1 more
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Critical Education, 2016 The Deaf community is an oppressed sociolinguistic, collectivist minority that primarily uses sign language. Interpreters are frequently used to bridge the gap between the members of the Deaf community and hearing people.
Wyatte C. Hall, Ph.D. +2 more
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An online community for the deaf
Procedia Computer Science, 2011 AbstractOnline communities are helpful with many advantages for the deaf who are not able to hear or hear hard as it is for hearing people. Deaf people use sign language which is a visual form of communication including the combination of hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands and facial expressions instead of voice which is used in spoken ...
Morteza Zahedi +2 more
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The blind, the deaf and the halt : physical disability, the Poor Law and charity c. 1830-1890, with particular reference to the County [PDF]
, 2004 This thesis examines the situation of the physically disabled poor over the period c. 1830-1890. It concentrates initially on the treatment of these individuals under the Poor Law and then proceeds to examine voluntary provision, focusing in particular ...
Bergen, Amanda Nichola
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PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 People for whom English is a second language, such as the deaf population, often have unequal access to health information and low health literacy. In the context of a wider study on risk of tick-borne illness in deaf communities, we explored barriers ...
Lorne Farovitch +5 more
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Sense of Community: The Irish Deaf Community
Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2021 There is a strong perception among members of the Irish deaf community that the community is in gradual decline, with dwindling traditional bases for producing Irish Sign Language (ISL) users.
John Bosco Conama
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Science and Engineering Education Strategies Along With the Deaf-Sign Language
آموزش مهندسی ایران, 2020 Language is one of the most important features of humanity and the element of human existence. Sign language is a solution to meet the verbal and communication needs of the deaf community just like Persian, Chinese, English, etc.
Minoo Alemi , Ali Meghdari
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Bible For The Deaf: Implication For Sign Language Bible Translation [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2020 The Deaf community in Nigeria is confronted with the challenge of non-translation of the Bible into Sign Language, leading to a greater percentage being biblically illiterate.
Ruth Oyeniyi
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