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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
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.
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.
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.
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.