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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"American Sign Language (ASL)"”.
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Comprehension of Signed English and American Sign Language Stories By Deaf Children
… the comprehension of two stories, one in American Sign Language (ASL) and one in Signed English (SE) by young deaf students. After viewing the stories on videotape, the students answered a series of comprehension questions. Results indicated that there was no significant difference between …
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American Sign Language as a Foreign Language Requirement: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Standards
This paper examined the arguments for American Sign Language (ASL) as a foreign language and the development of a new ASL curriculum to fulfill a foreign language requirement at Miami University. Due to the large number of individuals in the United States using ASL as a language and the steady …
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American Sign Language as an Aid in Teaching Kindergarten Language Arts Content Standards to Speaking English Language Learners and Speech and Hearing Impaired
<p>Deaf student using American Sign Language (ASL) have shown higher vocabulary test results compared to their speaking counterparts. The purpose of this study is to investigate if ASL can aid in teaching kindergarten language art content standards to English language learners and speech and …
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Response process validity of the ASL-SDQ with deaf youth : a cognitive interview study
Deaf youth exhibit significantly higher rates of emotional and behavioral problems compared to their hearing peers. This population is extremely heterogeneous in terms of language and communication characteristics and many deaf youth are not provided access to a fully accessible language, American …
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Visual Perception in Hearing Sign Language Users
Deaf signers exhibit superior visual perception compared to hearing controls in several domains, including the perception of faces and peripheral motion. These visual enhancements are thought to compensate for an absence of auditory input. However, it is also possible that they reflect experience …
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American Sign Language Gesture Recognition using Motion Tracking Gloves in VR
… approach to performing gesture recognition on American sign language (ASL) hand gestures through virtual reality (VR) using motion tracking gloves. As a proof of concept, an application was developed using this approach which is capable of recognizing 34 ASL hand gestures performed by a user as …
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Coarticulation in American Sign Language Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling is a category of American Sign Language (ASL) signs that are signed sequentially as an alphabetic representation. The present study proposes to examine the coarticulation and feature-spreading characteristics of fingerspelling. A preliminary study identified feature categories to be …
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Mothers Do Not Drive the Development of Adult Homesign Systems: Evidence from Comprehension
… input can help clarify human predispositions for language. Some deaf individuals born into hearing families, who do not receive conventional linguistic input, develop gestures, called “homesign,” to communicate. We examined homesign systems used by four deaf Nicaraguan adults (ages 15-27), and …
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Reading behaviors of deaf young adults: A study of the use of sign language and the resolution of reference in connected discourse
… to make connections between his or her oral language and the written text. Recent research suggests that there is an important relationship between a reader's oral language competence and successfully deriving a coherent message from text. The purpose of this research was to understand the …
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Universal quantification in the nominal domain in American Sign Language
While quantification in American Sign Language (ASL) has been an object of linguistic investigation for more than two decades, there are still relatively few studies on that topic. Most crucially, detailed descriptions of many aspects of quantification in ASL are still lacking. This dissertation is …
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A kinematic analysis of sign language
Signed languages develop among deaf populations and employ manual communication instead of voiced communication. Stokoe attributes classify individual signs in American Sign Language (ASL) and include handshape, hand location, movement, orientation, and facial expression. Signed and oral languages …
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Miss Floretta: The Creation of a Character and a Curriculum
… Arts Education, Participatory Storytelling and American Sign Language (ASL). Preschool aged children are primed for learning. The earlier the arts are introduced into their lives, the more likely they may travel down the path towards learning. Miss Floretta is a friendly character who provides a …
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Miss Floretta: The Creation of a Character and a Curriculum
… Arts Education, Participatory Storytelling and American Sign Language (ASL). Preschool aged children are primed for learning. The earlier the arts are introduced into their lives, the more likely they may travel down the path towards learning. Miss Floretta is a friendly character who provides a …
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The Deaf Experience in a Hearing Medical World
… is a member of the Deaf community, uses American Sign Language (ASL), and had multiple decades of major medical treatments. The study was conducted using a semi-structured method with a certified interpreter (CI) present to interpret and was audio and video recorded to account for all …
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REAL-TIME CLASSIFICATION OF CONTINUOUS GESTURES
… average correct classification using all 26 American Sign Language (ASL) manual alphabets as the examples. The system also achieves real-time performance at an average of 25 FPS. Other novel approaches in this study include the use of adaptive background model with the combination of …
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The relationship between American Sign Language vocabulary and the development of language-based reasoning skills in deaf children
The language-based analogical reasoning abilities of Deaf children are a controversial topic. Researchers lack agreement about whether Deaf children possess the ability to reason using language-based analogies, or whether this ability is limited by a lack of access to vocabulary, both written and …
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Experiences of Deaf and Hard of Hearing College Students Assessed in Standard English
… deficit in the comprehension of the English language. This deficit exists because the primary language for DHH students is American Sign Language (ASL) rather than the English language. ASL is considered and recognized as a visual language, which does not have an exact translation to the …
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Mississippi ASL Project
American Sign Language (ASL) is a manual language used by many deaf people in the United States and Canada. For much of its existence, ASL was believed to be a system of rudimentary gestures and signs based on the English language. However, studies that analyzed the linguistic properties of this …
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A survey of those in the U.S. Deaf community about reading and writing ASL
… principle suggests that literacy in American Sign Language (ASL) may improve literacy in English for students who are deaf. However, the Deaf community in the United States has not widely adopted a written form of ASL. This research surveys individuals in the U.S. Deaf community to …
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THE ROLE OF PHONOLOGY AND SEMANTICS IN THE LEXICAL PROCESSING OF ASL CORE LEXICAL ITEMS AND CLASSIFIER CONSTRUCTIONS
This MA thesis explores lexical processing in American Sign Language (ASL). Although a model of lexical processing exists for spoken languages, the research on lexical processing, storage, and organization in signed languages is not very extensive and has been focused on the core lexicon. The …
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