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Boost Your Communication Skills Using Sign Language

Sign language is an easy way to learn vocabulary, sentence structure, finger spelling, multiple meaning words, grammar & many more things. Sign Language helps to improve communication and develop skills of deaf pupils. Sign Language Interpreters play an important role in that. The presentation will give you a brief idea on how sign language came into existence how it has been helping people ever since.

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Boost Your Communication Skills Using Sign Language

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  1. Boost Your Communication Skills Using Sign Language! Jeff Hernandez

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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. 

  6. 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

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

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. Finger spelled Alphabet Sign Language

  12. 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

  13. 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.

  14. Sign Language Hand Positions for Numbers

  15. 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.

  16. References • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language • http://www.kidzworld.com/article/6505-history-of-sign-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_language • https://dssofgcsc.wordpress.com/for-professors/types-of-sign-language/ • http://translationexcellence.com/interpretation-services-denver • http://www.start-american-sign-language.com/history-of-sign-language.html • http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?pid=114804&sid=991835 • http://study.com/articles/Sign_Language_Interpreter_Job_Description_Duties_and_Requirements.html

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