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Several Zimbabwean sign languages developed independently among deaf students in different Zimbabwean schools for the deaf starting in the 1940s. It is not clear how many languages they are, as little research has been done; Masvingo School Sign is known to be different from that of other schools, [2] but each school apparently has a separate sign language, and these are different from the ...
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Rather than embrace the view that deafness is a "personal tragedy", the Deaf community contrasts the medical model of deafness by seeing all aspects of the deaf experience as positive. The birth of a deaf child is seen as a cause for celebration. [3] Deaf people point to the perspective on child rearing they share with hearing people.
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Yumpu was launched in 2011 as a self-publishing service for B2B by Norbert Rom's i-magazine AG (founded 2006). [1] [2] I-magazine AG, in turn, is a subsidiary of adRom Holding AG, which was also founded by Norbert Rom. [3] In 2016, Yummy Publishing GmbH was founded in Austria as a subsidiary of i-Magazine AG, which supports the parent company with various services.
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.
Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf is a 1989 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks. The book covers a variety of topics in Deaf studies , including sign language , the neurology of deafness, the history of the treatment of Deaf Americans , and linguistic and social challenges facing the Deaf community .
A deaf-community or urban sign language is a sign language that emerges when deaf people who do not have a common language come together and form a community. This may be a formal situation, such as the establishment of a school for deaf students, or informal, such as migration to cities for employment and the subsequent gathering of deaf people for social purposes. [1]