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Barbara D. Garrett; Emily G. Girardin; Whitney R. Weirick – Sign Language Studies, 2025
To better understand the current state of American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter education in the United States, the authors analyzed publicly available website data to document the number and type of active postsecondary interpreter education programs by state. This descriptive study aimed to address a significant gap in the literature by…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Interpretive Skills, Majors (Students)
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Halley, Mark – Sign Language Studies, 2022
In 1988, members of the American deaf community protested the appointment of a hearing person as the president of Gallaudet University, the world's only university for deaf and hard of hearing students. After a week of protest, the university's board of trustees capitulated and bowed to all the protester's demands. As the protesters engaged in a…
Descriptors: Deafness, Deaf Interpreting, College Presidents, Universities
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Guynes, Kristen; Gordon, Emily; Vallone, Christina – Sign Language Studies, 2023
Despite the upward trajectory of formal American Sign Language (ASL) instruction, evidence-based practices remain in a rudimentary stage of development. Previously, no known studies had distinctly investigated supplemental ASL laboratories (ASL labs), despite over half of ASL instructors utilizing them alongside their classes. This qualitative…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Evidence Based Practice, Laboratories, College Students
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Nicodemus, Brenda; Swabey, Laurie; Leeson, Lorraine; Napier, Jemina; Pettita, Giulia; Taylor, Marty M. – Sign Language Studies, 2017
Little is known about the nature of fingerspelling during sign language interpretation. In this small-scale, exploratory study, we examined the fingerspelling of interpreters working in five different sign languages: American Sign Language (ASL), Australian Sign Language (Auslan), British Sign Language (BSL), Irish Sign Language (ISL), and Italian…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Finger Spelling, Naming
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Nyst, Victoria – Sign Language Studies, 2015
This article gives a first overview of the sign language situation in Mali and its capital, Bamako, located in the West African Sahel. Mali is a highly multilingual country with a significant incidence of deafness, for which meningitis appears to be the main cause, coupled with limited access to adequate health care. In comparison to neighboring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Sign Language
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McDermid, Campbell – Sign Language Studies, 2017
A small group of interpreters was interviewed with regard to their view of learning ASL and becoming bicultural. A model of identity was then postulated based on Hegel's dialectic (Wheat 2012) of thesis (presuppositions, stereotypes, or theories about ASL and the Deaf community), antithesis (conflicting experiences), and synthesis (new…
Descriptors: English, Speech Communication, Deafness, American Sign Language
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Breen, Jonathon S. – Sign Language Studies, 2015
In 2012, a two-year pilot project was implemented throughout the Yukon to provide free, on-demand professional American Sign Language (ASL/English) interpretation services to all members of the Deaf community. Following extensive community consultation, this project was developed to meet a growing concern that a denial of ASL interpretation…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Deaf Interpreting, Quality of Life, Citizenship
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Smith, Caitlin; Dicus, Danica – Sign Language Studies, 2015
Sign language interpreters work with a variety of consumer populations throughout their careers. One such population, referred to as "emergent signers," consists of consumers who are in the process of learning American Sign Language, and who rely on interpreters during their language acquisition period. A gap in the research is revealed…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Research, Surveys, Language Acquisition
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Isakson, Su Kyong – Sign Language Studies, 2018
This article puts forward a solution to the impending shortage of culturally and linguistically competent interpreters: the education of heritage signers as heritage language learners. It examines the current landscape of American Sign Language (ASL) as a course of study and the difficulties heritage signers report when they begin learning ASL. In…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Language Research, Deaf Interpreting
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Palmer, Jeffrey Levi; Reynolds, Wanette; Minor, Rebecca – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This pilot study examines whether the increased virtual "mobility" of ASL users via videophone and video-relay services is contributing to the standardization of ASL. In addition, language attitudes are identified and suggested to be influencing the perception of correct versus incorrect standard forms. ASL users around the country have their own…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Variation, Dialects, Language Planning
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Maxwell, Madeline M.; Boster, Shirley – Sign Language Studies, 1982
Discusses the special problems of interpreting hymns written in archaic English and then matching words of a translation to music. Addresses the question of whether competence in ASL and knowledge of signs for religious terms are sufficient for hymns to be of value to deaf worshippers. (EKN)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness, Hymns
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Frankel, Mindy A. – Sign Language Studies, 2002
This study documented prevalent signs used during the interpreting process, specifically related to negation in tactile American Sign Language (TASL). Focused on ASL to TASL only.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Blindness, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
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Woodward, James; DeSantis, Susan – Sign Language Studies, 1977
The historically attested change of two-handed signs on the face to one-handed variants, which occurs in two historically related sign languages, French Sign Language and American Sign Language, is used to test variation theory. The results of the study support viewing languages in a dynamic framework. (AMH)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness, Language Acquisition
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Miller, Katrina R.; Vernon, McCay – Sign Language Studies, 2002
Discusses deaf criminal suspects in two categories. The first involves deaf suspects who are proficient in the use of one or more of the following languages or modes: American Sign language, manually coded English, contact language, and indigenous or foreign sign languages. The second involves deaf suspects who are not proficient in any language.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Criminals, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
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Strong, Michael; Rudser, Steven Fritsch – Sign Language Studies, 1985
Describes an instrument for objective assessment of sign language interpreters, which used videotapes to assess the accuracy of interpreted output. It categorizes the kinds of modifications made in response to cultural factors, estimates the degree of American Sign Language or English use, and records fingerspelling influence. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness, Evaluation Methods
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