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Ann, Jean. "Against [lateral]: Evidence from Chinese Sign Language and American Sign Language." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227260.

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American Sign Language (ASL) signs are claimed to be composed of four parameters: handshape, location, movement (Sto]çoe 1960) and palm orientation (Battison 1974). This paper focuses solely on handshape, that is, the configuration of the thumb and the fingers in a given sign. Handshape is significant in ASL and Chinese Sign Language (CSL); that is, minimal pairs exist for handshape in each. Thus, the two ASL signs in (1) differ in one parameter: the handshapes are different, but the location, palm orientation and movement are the same. Similarly, the two CSL signs in (2) differ in one paramet

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Fekete, Emily. "SIGNS IN SPACE: AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AS SPATIAL LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL WORLDVIEW." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1279060612.

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Feng, Qianli. "Automatic American Sign Language Imitation Evaluator." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461233570.

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Petronio, Karen M. "Clause structure in American sign language /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8418.

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Zafrulla, Zahoor. "Automatic recognition of American sign language classifiers." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53461.

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Automatically recognizing classifier-based grammatical structures of American Sign Language (ASL) is a challenging problem. Classifiers in ASL utilize surrogate hand shapes for people or "classes" of objects and provide information about their location, movement and appearance. In the past researchers have focused on recognition of finger spelling, isolated signs, facial expressions and interrogative words like WH-questions (e.g. Who, What, Where, and When). Challenging problems such as recognition of ASL sentences and classifier-based grammatical structures remain relatively unexplored in the

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Cole, Jessica. "American Sign Language poetry literature in motion /." Diss., [La Jolla, Calif.] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1462125.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed April 3, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-76).

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Cheek, Davina Adrianne. "The phonetics and phonology of handshape in American Sign Language /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008299.

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Holzrichter, Amanda Sue. "A crosslinguistic study of child-directed signing : American Sign Language and sign language of Spain /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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McBurney, Susan Lloyd. "Referential morphology in signed languages /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8436.

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Sinander, Pierre, and Tomas Issa. "Sign Language Translation." Thesis, KTH, Mekatronik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-296169.

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The purpose of the thesis was to create a data glove that can translate ASL by reading the finger- and hand movements. Furthermore, the applicability of conductive fabric as stretch sensors was explored. To read the hand gestures stretch sensors constructed from conductive fabric were attached to each finger of the glove to distinguish how much they were bent. The hand movements were registered using a 3-axis accelerometer which was mounted on the glove. The sensor values were read by an Arduino Nano 33 IoT mounted to the wrist of the glove which processed the readings and translated them into

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Leyhe, Anya A. "An Ethnographic Inquiry: Contemporary Language Ideologies of American Sign Language." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/473.

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Historically, American Sign Language (an aspect of Deaf culture) has been rendered invisible in mainstream hearing society. Today, ASL’s popularity is evidenced in an ethnolinguistic renaissance; more second language learners pursue an interest in ASL than ever before. Nonetheless, Deaf and hearing people alike express concern about ASL’s place in hearing culture. This qualitative study engages ethnographic methods of participant observation and semi-structured interviewing as well as popular media analysis to understand language ideologies (ideas and objectives concerning roles of language in

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Benitez-Quiroz, Carlos Fabian. "A Computational Study of American Sign Language Nonmanuals." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436909704.

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Thompson, Robin L. "Eye gaze in American Sign Language linguistic functions for verbs and pronoun /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3279427.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed October 16, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Casey, Shannon Kerry. ""Agreement" in gestures and signed languages : the use of directionality to indicate referents involved in actions /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3094623.

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Bonner, Brooke Alexis. "AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE CORE STANDARDS AND EVIDENCE BASED INSTRUCTION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1397302571.

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Gallimore, Laurene Elizabeth. "Teachers' stories: Teaching American Sign Language and English literacy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284188.

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Educators have long recognized that the average deaf high school graduate achieves only a third to fourth grade level education. Because of the low achievement of deaf children in America, there has been a growing interest in the concept of educating deaf children bilingually, acknowledging the value of American Sign Language (ASL) and English in the classroom. In recent years, there has been a move in the field of deaf education in Europe, Canada, and the United States toward the adoption of a bilingual-bicultural (BiBi) model for language and literacy instruction for deaf students. However,

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DiLoreto, Elizabeth. "American Sign Language as a Foreign Language Requirement: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Standards." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1364150201.

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Nayak, Sunita. "Representation and learning for sign language recognition." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002362.

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Yin, Pei. "Segmental discriminative analysis for American Sign Language recognition and verification." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33939.

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This dissertation presents segmental discriminative analysis techniques for American Sign Language (ASL) recognition and verification. ASL recognition is a sequence classification problem. One of the most successful techniques for recognizing ASL is the hidden Markov model (HMM) and its variants. This dissertation addresses two problems in sign recognition by HMMs. The first is discriminative feature selection for temporally-correlated data. Temporal correlation in sequences often causes difficulties in feature selection. To mitigate this problem, this dissertation proposes segmentally-boosted

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Ucci, Allison. "American Sign Language : an influence on graphic design problem-solving /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/6274.

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Starner, Thad. "Visual recognition of American sign language using hidden Markov models." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29089.

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Chapman, Robbin Nicole 1958. "A lexicon for translation of American Sign Language to English." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80082.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 1999.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-132).<br>by Robbin Nicole Chapman.<br>S.M.

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Nix, Michael Albert. "Parsing an American Sign Language Corpus with Combinatory Categorial Grammar." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8407.

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Research into parsing sign language corpora is ongoing. Corpora for German Sign Language and Italian Sign Language have been parsed (Bungeroth et al., 2006; Mazzei, 2011, 2012, respectively). However, research into parsing a corpus of American Sign Language is non-existent. Examples of parsed ASL sentences in literature are typically isolated examples used to show a particular type of construction. Apparently no attempt has been made to parse an entire corpus of American Sign Language utterances. This thesis presents a method for constructing a grammar so that a parser implementing Combinatory

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DiBlasi, Anita F. "Evaluating the Effects of Aging on American Sign Language Users." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1310670070.

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Geier, Colleen Avilla. "An Evaluation of an American Sign Language Interpreting Internship Program." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3096.

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This study was a program evaluation of an American Sign Language internship program that was established in 2006 at a 4-year private college in the Midwestern United States but had never been evaluated. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of this internship program in preparing students for employment in the field of interpreting. An expertise-oriented program evaluation case study was conducted using the lens of experiential learning theory. Research questions were used to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of the program and the ways in which the policies, object

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Yi, Beifang. "A framework for a sign language interfacing system." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3210068.

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Marentette, Paula F. (Paula Frances). "It's in her hands : a case study of the emergence of phonology in American Sign Language." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40189.

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A case study of American Sign Language (ASL) acquisition revealed an emerging phonological system influenced by biological, cognitive, and linguistic factors. A hearing child (SJ), acquiring ASL from her Deaf parents, was videotaped over seven sessions between the ages of 1:0 and 2:1. Of the 1,699 manual behaviors observed, 804 were lexical items, or signs. All signs were phonetically coded. Detailed analyses were undertaken to discover acquisition patterns for the three major parameters of ASL signs (handshape, hand location and movement).<br>Overall, SJ's signs were well-formed and adhered t

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Rupe, Jonathan C. "Vision-based hand shape identification for sign language recognition /." Link to online version, 2005. https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/940.

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Di, Perri Kristin Anderson. "American Sign Language phonemic awareness in deaf children: implications for instruction." Thesis, Boston University, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/31966.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University<br>For children who are deaf, one aspect of early English literacy instruction has always been problematic. Deaf children have great difficulty in learning to employ a sound-based phonetic to alphabetic mapping process such as required in reading and writing without natural linguistic access to English. This dissertation presents two studies. In Study #1 subjects are given the American Sign Language Phonemic Awareness Inventory (ASLP AI). In Study #2 the phonological aspect ofhandshape and its relationship to the Manual Alphabet is investigated. Twenty-nine

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Shepard-Kegl, Judy Anne. "Locative relations in American Sign Language word formation, syntax and discourse." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/15168.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1985.<br>MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND HUMANITIES<br>Bibliography: leaves 493-505.<br>by Judy Anne Shepard-Kegl.<br>Ph.D.

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Sarella, Kanthi. "An image processing technique for the improvement of Sign2 using a dual camera approach /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/5721.

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Calton, Cindee Jean. "Teaching respect: language, identity, and ideology in American sign language classes in the United States." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4950.

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This dissertation examines the connection between language ideologies and second language learning, specifically in the case of American Sign Language. I argue that students' and teachers' ideologies about American Sign Language (ASL) influence the goals and pedagogies of ASL teachers. ASL students enter the classroom with ideologies that conflate ASL with gesture or view it as simplified visual English. ASL students also view deafness as a disability that needs to be fixed. This contrasts with ASL teachers' view that Deaf people are a distinct cultural minority who wish to remain Deaf. As a r

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Adams, Hadiya Annvela. "EXAMINING SIGNER-SPECIFICITY EFFECTS IN THE PERCEPTION OF WORDS IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1336747548.

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Ding, Liya. "Modelling and Recognition of Manuals and Non-manuals in American Sign Language." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1237564092.

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EHRLICH-MARTIN, SUZANNE M. "A CASE STUDY OF AN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE COURSE TAUGHT VIA VIDEOCONFERENCING." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1148057666.

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Fraychineaud, Kathy Ann 1956. "A preliminary study of a measurement tool for American Sign Language stories." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291921.

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This study proposes an adaptation of Hunt's (1965) Terminal Miminal Syntactic Unit (T-Unit) to measure syntactic complexity in American Sign Language (ASL) syntax. Criterion for determining an American Sign Language T-Unit is based upon research into the linguistic structure and development of ASL. Nine deaf elementary aged students watched a non-verbal film and retold the story in ASL on videotape (Newport et al., in press). The stories were then transcribed into the Vista Glossing System (Smith, Lentz & Mikos, 1988). Transcriptions were segmented into T-Units and further analyzed for syntact

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Viswavarapu, Lokesh Kumar. "Real-Time Finger Spelling American Sign Language Recognition Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404616/.

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This thesis presents design and development of a gesture recognition system to recognize finger spelling American Sign Language hand gestures. We developed this solution using the latest deep learning technique called convolutional neural networks. This system uses blink detection to initiate the recognition process, Convex Hull-based hand segmentation with adaptive skin color filtering to segment hand region, and a convolutional neural network to perform gesture recognition. An ensemble of four convolutional neural networks are trained with a dataset of 25254 images for gesture recognition an

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Kitzel, Mary E. "Chasing ancestors : searching for the roots of American Sign Language in the Kentish Weald, 1620-1851." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/48877/.

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Late twentieth-century discourses regarding deaf people and sign language provide the theoretical background for investigating early modern families with hereditary deafness within the Kentish Weald. The first of its kind, this thesis described the methods used to ascertain the presence of sufficient numbers of networked deaf people to maintain natural sign language. A source-driven work, it began with two data sources - a list generated by previous American genealogical research of the first known European-American deaf families originating from seventeenth-century Kent and the 1851 Census of

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Hildebrandt, Ursula Clare. "An investigation of hearing infants' preferences for American Sign Language and nonlinguistic biological motion /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9136.

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Wang, Chao, and 王超. "Sign language and the moral government of deafness in antebellum America." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/211119.

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Many Deaf people today consider themselves a linguistic minority with a culture distinct from the mainstream hearing society. This is in large part because they communicate through an independent language——American Sign Language (ASL). However, two hundreds years ago, sign language was a “common language” for communication between hearing and deaf people within the institutional framework of “manualism.” Manualism is a pedagogical system of sign language introduced mainly from France in order to buttress the campaign for deaf education in the early-19th-century America. In 1817, a hearing man

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Xu, Kimberly A. "Facilitating American Sign Language learning for hearing parents of deaf children via mobile devices." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47629.

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In the United States, between 90 and 95% of deaf children are born to hearing parents. In most circumstances, the birth of a deaf child is the first experience these parents have with American Sign Language (ASL) and the Deaf community. Parents learn ASL as a second language to provide their children with language models and to be able to communicate with their children more effectively, but they face significant challenges. To address these challenges, I have developed a mobile learning application, SMARTSign, to help parents of deaf children learn ASL vocabulary. I hypothesize that provid

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Boudreault, Patrick. "Grammatical processing in American Sign Language, effects of age of acquisition and syntactic complexity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0032/MQ64322.pdf.

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Jennings-Arey, Rhonda Lynn. "Self-directedness among american sign language learners| A study of first semester college students." Thesis, Capella University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10099593.

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<p> This explanatory mixed method research study investigates instructor and student perceptions regarding the factors that enhance or inhibit the self-directedness of American Sign Language (ASL) I students enrolled in institutions of higher education. This methodology was employed to learn from interviews with 10 participants, both students and instructors, as well as 20 students who participated in the Self Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS) aka the Learning Preference Assessment (LPA) developed by Lucy Guglielmino (1978). The SDLRS survey answered the first research question. As it

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Gaines, Sarah Elizabeth, and Sarah Elizabeth Gaines. "Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and Reading with Deaf Students Using American Sign Language (ASL)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621789.

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This study was an investigation of the relationship between rapid automatized naming (RAN) and reading in a sample of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students who use American Sign Language (ASL). Thirty DHH students, 10 to 18 years old, were given a series of assessments including measures of RAN, reading decoding, reading fluency, reading comprehension, expressive vocabulary, receptive vocabulary, and visual-motor integration. Significant correlations were found between RAN colors and reading decoding; RAN colors and reading comprehension; and RAN colors, numbers, and letters and reading flue

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Mohamed, Asif, Paul Sujeet, and Vishnu Ullas. "Gauntlet-X1: Smart Glove System for American Sign Language translation using Hand Activity Recognition." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-428743.

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The most common forms of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) devices these dayslike the keyboard, mouse and touch interfaces, are limited to working on atwo-dimensional (2-D) surface, and thus do not provide complete freedom ofaccessibility using our hands. With the vast number of gestures a hand can perform,including the different combinations of motion of fingers, wrist and elbow, we canmake accessibility and interaction with the digital environment much more simplified,without restrictions to the physical surface. Fortunately, this is possible due to theadvancements of Microelectromechanical s

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Pollisco, Mary Jane 1964. "American Sign Language intervention with deaf children of monolingual Hispanic families: A case study." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278248.

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Deaf children of monolingual Hispanic families possess unique linguistic needs and are recognized as a "minority within a minority" because of their unique language situation, in which case, American Sign Language (ASL), is not available in their environment, and both Spanish and English are essentially spoken languages and not accessible to them. In order to develop a strong language foundation, deaf children need exposure to ASL. Moreover, their own parents, if non-signing, also need exposure to ASL to serve as a language model and to maintain reciprocal and effective communication. A formal

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Wix, Tina Rebecca 1960. "The American sign language specialist: The development of a model position in deaf education." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291452.

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Deaf children often lack signed language competence due to a lack of a rich linguistic environment in their homes during the critical language acquisition period. In order to facilitate language development in deaf children, signed language development programs should be staffed with appropriate personnel with a background in ASL acquisition. The American Sign Language (ASL) Specialist model has been proposed to meet the linguistic needs of deaf children. Results of the survey indicate that there are some positions in American deaf education that partially meet the proposed model. The objectiv

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Alfano, Alliete Rodriguez. "Communication and Culture: Implications for Hispanic Mothers with Deaf Children." Scholarly Repository, 2007. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/61.

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The majority of deaf children are born to hearing parents. The fact that many of these children use sign language as their primary form of communication poses a unique language barrier between them and their hearing families. In addition, for children who are born into Hispanic families, these children have limited access to Hispanic and Deaf cultures unless their families actively pursue involvement with those communities. Data were collected through ethnographic interviews and limited participant observation and analyzed by means of grounded theory methodology. The study investigated how His

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Haley-Garrett, Kerri. "The Acquisition of Functional Sign Language by Non-Hearing Impaired Infants." Scholar Commons, 2006. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3863.

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Research shows that young children, typically developing with no developmental delays, hearing impairments or visual impairments, can acquire sign language to communicate their wants or needs prior to their ability to communicate through spoken language. However, much of the research reviewed focused on whether it was normative for young children to use signs or symbolic gestures to represent objects, make requests, or to express other wants or needs. In addition, many of the studies reviewed lacked scientific rigor and were primarily anecdotal in that much of the data relied on parent reports

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Brightman, Beth Lilessie Cagle. "The Relationship Between Attitudes and Perspectives of American Sign Language University Students Towards Deaf People." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4868.

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