Boost Your Communication Skills Using Sign Language

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Boost Your Communication Skills Using Sign
Language!
Jeff Hernandez
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Things to Cover

• Introduction to Sign Language
• History of Sign Language
• Sign Language - Fun Facts
• Types of Sign Language
• Who uses Sign Language?
• What percentage of the World is Dependent on Sign
  Language?
• Why is Sign Language Important?
• The Role of Sign Language Interpreters
• Communication made simpler with Sign Language
• Conclusion

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SIGN LANGUAGE

• Manual communication body language to convey
  meaning, as opposed to acoustically conveyed
  sound patterns.
• You can also used a different medium
• Hands
• Facial expressions
• Eyes

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History of Sign Language

• Aristotle the first to have a claim recorded
  about the deaf.
• Geronimo Cardano, an Italian mathematician
  physician educated his deaf son using written
  words.
• In 1960, William Stokoe, a scholar and hearing
  professor at Gallaudet University, published a
  dissertation that proved ASL is a genuine
  language

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• ASL was henceforth recognized as a national
  language.
• Laura Bridgman first deaf-blind person to be
  educated
• 1771 established the first public free deaf
• In 1995, a woman named Heather Whitestone became
  the first deaf woman to be named Miss America in
  the Miss America pageant. 

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Sign Language - Fun Facts

• It is the fourth most used language in the US.
• Deaf History Month is observed from March 13th to
  April 15th every year.
• Hundreds of sign language dialects in use around
  the world
• Each culture has developed its own form of sign
  language

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Types of Sign Language

• American Sign Language (ASL)
• British Sign Language (BSL)
• Signed English (SE)
• Sign Supported English (SSE)
• International Sign (IS)
• Finger Spelling

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Who uses Sign Language?

• The class of people that use sign language  

• Deaf People
• Sign language newscasters
• Some parents also teach their babies sign
  language to enhance their communication skills

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What percentage of the World is Dependent on Sign
Language?

• ASL is currently the sixth most-used language in
  the US
• ASL is the language of a sizeable minority.
• Estimates range from 500,000 to two million
  speakers in the US
• ASL is now used by approximately one-half million
  Deaf people in the US and Canada.

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Why is Sign Language Important?

• Sign language plays the major role in developing
  Deaf identity
• It is the Mother tongue language of Deaf children
• Use Sign language in education
• Sign language are a linguistic and legal aspect

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Finger spelled Alphabet Sign Language
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The Role of Sign Language Interpreters

• Converts spoken language into sign language
• Work for schools, hospitals or government
  agencies
• Listening carefully to, or watching, what is said
  or signed
• Interpreting everything that is said or signed

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Communication made simpler with Sign Language

• Sign Language is a method of presenting thoughts
  via pictures or actions made using hands.
• Sign Language is a great way to train the dumb
  and the deaf.
• Makes communication simpler with the facial
  expressions.

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Sign Language Hand Positions for Numbers
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Conclusion

• What did you learn from this?
• Not the same hand shape is used in every sign
  language.
• Sign Language plays a vital role in life.
• Signing is not only used by the deaf, it is also
  used by people who can hear, but cannot
  physically speak.
• Sign languages show the same linguistic
  properties and use the same language faculty as
  do spoken languages.
• Hundreds of sign languages are in use around the
  world.

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References

• https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language
• http//www.kidzworld.com/article/6505-history-of-s
  ign-language
• https//www.simplythescoop.com/topic-detail/nYCqhA
  /why-some-parents-are-not-use-sign-language-with
  -their-deaf-children
• https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sign_lang
  uage
• https//dssofgcsc.wordpress.com/for-professors/typ
  es-of-sign-language/
• http//translationexcellence.com/interpretation-se
  rvices-denver
• http//www.start-american-sign-language.com/histor
  y-of-sign-language.html
• http//libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?pid114
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• http//study.com/articles/Sign_Language_Interprete
  r_Job_Description_Duties_and_Requirements.html

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