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Salk Inst. for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA. – 1987
The manual teaches SignFont, a written form of sign language. Following a brief introduction, the first of three major sections describes the SignFont alphabet, structured according to the parts of every sign that is written (handshape, action area, location, movement). The second section discusses in greater detail how the SignFont characters are…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Expressive Language, Language
Peer reviewedStokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1978
In the debate over continuities versus discontinuities in the emergence of language, sign language is not taken to be the antithesis, but is presented as the antecedent of spoken languages. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Deafness, Grammar, Language, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedCharrow, Veda R.; Wilbur, Ronnie B. – Theory Into Practice, 1975
This paper focuses upon the deaf as an American Sign Language-using community, out of the English-using mainstream. (RC)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, English, Finger Spelling
Alterman, Arthur I. – Amer Ann Deaf, 1970
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Exceptional Child Education, Finger Spelling
FELLENDORF, GEORGE W.; AND OTHERS – 1966
APPROXIMATELY 3,200 REFERENCES ARE LISTED BY AUTHOR AND GROUPED ACCORDING TO SUBJECT. ALL REFERENCES ARE ARTICLES FROM "THE VOLTA REVIEW," 1899 TO 1965, OR "THE AMERICAN ANNALS OF THE DEAF," 1847 TO 1965. AN AUTHOR INDEX IS INCLUDED. THIS DOCUMENT WAS PUBLISHED BY THE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF, INC., THE…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Arithmetic, Art, Audiology
