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Indo-Pakistani Sign Language (IPSL) is the predominant sign language in the subcontinent of South Asia, used by at least 15 million deaf signers. [1] [2] As with many sign languages, it is difficult to estimate numbers with any certainty, as the Census of India does not list sign languages and most studies have focused on the north and urban areas.
Lawrence R. Newman, deaf educator and activist, and served two terms as President of the National Association of the Deaf; Michael Ndurumo, a deaf educator from Kenya, the third deaf person from Africa to be awarded a PhD; Marie Jean Philip, a teacher and leading international advocate for the right to sign language
Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]
Deafhood is a term coined by Paddy Ladd in his book Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood. [1] While the precise meaning of the word remains deliberately vague—Ladd himself calls Deafhood a "process" rather than something finite and clear—it attempts to convey an affirmative and positive acceptance of being deaf.
An introduction to Deaf culture in American Sign Language (ASL) with English subtitles available. Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.
LOVE CHILD FATHER LOVE CHILD "The father loves the child." However, other word orders may also occur since ASL allows the topic of a sentence to be moved to sentence-initial position, a phenomenon known as topicalization. In object–subject–verb (OSV) sentences, the object is topicalized, marked by a forward head-tilt and a pause: CHILD topic, FATHER LOVE CHILD topic, FATHER LOVE "The ...
Cued speech is a hybrid, oral/manual system of communication used by some deaf or hard-of-hearing people. It is a technique that uses handshapes near the mouth ("cues") to represent phonemes that can be challenging for some deaf or hard-of-hearing people to distinguish from one another through speechreading ("lipreading") alone.
"Sign languages are based on the idea that vision is the most useful tool a deaf person has to communicate and receive information". [ 1 ] Deaf culture refers to a tight-knit cultural group of people whose primary language is signed , and who practice social and cultural norms which are distinct from those of the surrounding hearing community.