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2. Hong Kong Sign Language - Wikipedia

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   Hong Kong Sign Language (香港手語), alternatively romanized as Hong Kong Saujyu and popularly abbreviated in English as HKSL, is the deaf sign language of Hong Kong and Macau. It derived from the southern dialect of Chinese Sign Language , but is now an independent, mutually unintelligible language.

3. Sign Assisted Instruction Programme - Wikipedia

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   Provide deaf students and special needs teaching staff with channels for learning sign language to assist in learning and teaching; From February 2015 to July 2017, a two-year plan is carried out. The goals are: [1] [7] Optimize visual sign language dictionary continuously to help deaf students balance sign language and oral development ...

4. Signing Exact English - Wikipedia

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   SEE-II models much of its sign vocabulary from American Sign Language (ASL), but modifies the handshapes used in ASL in order to use the handshape of the first letter of the corresponding English word. [2] SEE-II is not considered a language itself like ASL; rather it is an invented system for a language—namely, for English. [3] [4]

5. Lutheran School For The Deaf - Wikipedia

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   The principal of the school, Xu Jiaen, is also a member of the executive committee of the Hong Kong Society for the Deaf (香港聾人福利促進會). [15] There were deaf reporting there were three members in the committee violating the society constitution as their total term lengths are longer than the upper limit of 30 years, so they were ...

6. 'Barbie' with ASL: What to know about the film version and ...

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   Waibel says when team members pitched the idea to incorporate ASL as an additional language for the streaming version of Barbie, it was a no-brainer. “We started the way we always start, with ...

7. Chinese Sign Language - Wikipedia

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   Hong Kong Sign Language derives from the southern dialect, but by now is a separate language. [7] The Shanghai dialect is found in Malaysia and Taiwan, but Chinese Sign Language is unrelated to Taiwanese Sign Language (which is part of the Japanese family), Malaysian Sign Language (of the French family), or to Tibetan Sign Language (isolate).

8. Manually coded language - Wikipedia

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   The use of MCLs is controversial and has been opposed since Épée's time by "oralists" who believe Deaf people should speak, lipread and use hearing aids rather than sign—and on the other side by members of the American Sign Language (ASL) community (see Deaf culture) who resist a wide or exclusive application of MCLs for both philosophical and practical reasons.

9. Singapore Sign Language - Wikipedia

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   The history of sign language in Singapore can be traced back to 1951 when pioneer deaf educator Peng Tsu Ying left China for Singapore to teach deaf children in their homes. Born in Shanghai, Peng became deaf at the age of 6, and was educated in Hong Kong School for the Deaf (now known as Chun Tok School) and Shanghai Chung Wah School for the Deaf.