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And though I have been studying signing books since then, I am still only a beginner! The reason I began signing is because I have several fostered and adopted sisters who use Makaton to communicate and I originally began making my videos to encourage them as they learn new signs easier when it is fun. My sisters and I all love music!
Makaton is used extensively across Britain and has been adapted for use in different countries; signs from each country's deaf community are used, along with culturally relevant Makaton symbols. [2] For example, within Britain, Makaton uses signs from British Sign Language; the signs are mainly from the London and South East England regional ...
"Makaton peer tutoring evaluation: 10 years on". British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 30, 38–42, BILD Publications (with Grove, Nicola) (1990). "The Makaton Vocabulary: Using manual signs and graphic symbols to develop interpersonal communication", Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 6:1, 15-28, DOI: 10.1080/07434619012331275284
The manual alphabet can be used on either hand, normally the signer's dominant hand – that is, the right hand for right-handers, the left hand for left-handers. [1] Most frequently, the manual alphabet is signed just below the dominant shoulder of the signer.
Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people. It is a phonemic-based system which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small number of handshapes, known as cues (representing consonants), in different locations near the mouth (representing vowels) to convey spoken language in a visual format.
Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of written sign languages.It is highly featural and visually iconic: the shapes of the characters are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body; and their spatial arrangement on the page does not follow a sequential order unlike the letters of written words.
There were approximately 160,000 USL users in 2008. Deaf people comprise 0.35% of Uganda's population. (Estimates vary between 160,000 and 840,000 deaf people.) [7] Knowledge of USL is primarily urban, as access to education for the rural deaf remains poor.
Kenyan Sign Language (English: KSL, Swahili: LAK) is a sign language is used by the deaf community in Kenya and Somalia.It is used by over half of Kenya's estimated 600,000 deaf population.