Converting South African sign language to verbal
SAIEE Africa Research Journal, 2023 There is a significant population of hearing-impaired people who reside in South Africa; however, South African Sign Language (SASL) has not yet been recognized as South Africa's 12th official language, resulting in slow uptake of this important language.
Chakoma, Shingirirai, Baron, Philip
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Poetry in South African Sign Language: what is different?
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 Poetry in a sign language can make use of literary devices just as poetry in a spoken language can. The study of literary expression in sign languages has increased over the last twenty years and for South African Sign Language (SASL) such literary texts
Baker, Anne
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South African sign language: changing policies and practice
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 1999 There is no abstract available for this article.
Aarons, Debra
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South African Sign Language and language-in-education policy in South Africa
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2008 No abstract.
Reagan, Timothy
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Combining Forces: The South African Sign Language Bible Translation Project
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 This paper reports on the South African Sign Language Bible Translation Project, an ongoing project aiming to translate 110 Bible stories into South African Sign Language (SASL).
van der Walt, Ananda +2 more
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Bridging the policy–practice gap: A call for urgent early intervention and early education South African policy reform for children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing [PDF]
South African Journal of Communication DisordersIn the global context, South Africa demonstrates higher disabling-hearing-loss prevalence rates than high-income countries because of its contextual challenges such as high burden of disease and audiology service access inequity.
Luisa Petrocchi-Bartal
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Adaptation and pilot testing of the Early Learning Outcome Measure (ELOM) (4&5) Years Assessment tool in South African Sign Language. [PDF]
PLOS Global Public HealthEarly Childhood Development is a key national priority in South Africa which has developed the Early Learning Outcome Measure (ELOM 4&5) specifically designed to measure the progress of 4- and 5-year-old children across 5 domains of early childhood ...
Alys Young +5 more
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Construction of deaf narrative identity in creative South African Sign Language
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2020 In this paper we observe how deaf narrative identity (identities) emerge in creative SASL texts. We first identify how difficulties in establishing deaf cultural identities in the hearing-dominant world are represented in the ‘Man Against Monster’ plot ...
Morgan, Ruth, Kaneko, Michiko
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A perfect end: A study of syllable codas in South African Sign Language
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2017 South African Sign Language (SASL) is an understudied language with a rich and interesting phonology. For instance, while the language allows onsetless syllables, it does not allow codaless syllables, except in a small class of signs which do not include
Köhlo, Mikhaela D. K. +2 more
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Sinsontkenning in Suid-Afrikaanse Gebaretaal: ’n Gevallestudie
Literator, 2016 Soos ander gebaretale, maak Suid-Afrikaanse Gebaretaal (SAGT) gebruik van beide die hande en ander dele van die liggaam om ontkenning uit te druk.
Courtney de Barros, Ian Siebörger
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