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The modern concept of deaf space utilizes the five principal concepts: sensory reach, space and proximity, mobility and proximity, light and color, and acoustics. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It accounts for the visual and hearing abilities of the deaf person while also taking into consideration the visual sign language that they communicate in.
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]
On occasion, where the prevalence of deaf people is high enough, a deaf sign language has been taken up by an entire local community, forming what is sometimes called a "village sign language" [102] or "shared signing community". [103] Typically this happens in small, tightly integrated communities with a closed gene pool. Famous examples include:
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Hi all! I have started a project called BSL Lives, with the aim to include more biographies of British deaf people on Wikipedia. So far, 10 have been approved and published, and another 12 drafted (you can find them looking for the category "BSL users"). I would like to increase the visibility of the project on Wikipedia and to recruit some help.
Oregon School for the Deaf was founded in 1870 as a boarding school offering free education to students who are deaf or hard of hearing. It has occupied its campus on Locust Street in north Salem ...
Idaho State University’s Health Science campus in Meridian is ready to move forward on its plan to expand into 23 acres of farmland after receiving the Idaho State Board of Education’s blessing.