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Inclusion and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: Finding Asylum in the LRE

open access: yesEducation 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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Review of the book Deaf around the World: The impact of language / ed. by Mathur & Napoli [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
(first paragraph) Since its advent half a century ago, the field of sign language linguistics has had close ties to education and the empowerment of deaf communities, a union that is fittingly celebrated by Deaf around the world: The impact of language ...
de Vos, Connie, Palfreyman, Nick
core   +1 more source

Sign Language Recognition for Arabic Alphabets Using Transfer Learning Technique

open access: yesComputational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2022
Sign language is essential for deaf and mute people to communicate with normal people and themselves. As ordinary people tend to ignore the importance of sign language, which is the mere source of communication for the deaf and the mute communities ...
Mohammed Zakariah   +4 more
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Emerging Sign Languages

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
The emergence of sign language is of special interest because sign languages are the only human languages that can emerge de novo at any time [...]
Wendy Sandler   +2 more
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MediaPipe’s Landmarks with RNN for Dynamic Sign Language Recognition

open access: yesElectronics, 2022
Communication for hearing-impaired communities is an exceedingly challenging task, which is why dynamic sign language was developed. Hand gestures and body movements are used to represent vocabulary in dynamic sign language.
Gerges H. Samaan   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards understanding nonmanuality: A semiotic treatment of signers’ head movements

open access: yesGlossa, 2019
This article discusses a certain type of nonmanual action, signers’ head movements, from a semiotic perspective. It presents a typology of head movements and their iconic, indexical and symbolic features based on Peircean and post-Peircean semiotics. The
Anna Puupponen
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Agent defocusing in two-participant clauses in Finnish Sign Language

open access: yesGlossa, 2019
This article investigates what strategies are used for defocusing the agent in two-participant clauses in FinSL. The question is approached by analyzing a set of data that consists of videotaped informational texts.
Sanna Nordlund
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Deaf children need language, not (just) speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children need to master at least one language (spoken or signed) to reach their full potential. Providing access to a natural sign language supports this goal.
Caselli, Naomi   +2 more
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An overview of the EtsaTrans machine translation system: compilation of an administrative domain

open access: yesLiterator, 2008
The EtsaTrans machine translation system has been in development at the University of the Free State for the last four years and is currently the only machine translation system being developed in South Africa for specialised and nongeneral translation ...
L. Ehlers
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How to Ensure Bilingualism/Biliteracy in an Indigenous Context: The Case of Icelandic Sign Language

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
The paper discusses the implementation of a bilingual education language policy in the context of endangered indigenous sign language—Icelandic Sign Language (íslenskt táknmál, ÍTM).
Elena Koulidobrova   +1 more
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