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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"British Sign Language"”.
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Assessing British sign language development
Sign bilingualism is one of several approaches to the education of deaf children in the UK Sign bilingualism seeks to introduce British Sign Language (BSL) to deaf children from an early age in order to establish a first language from which English, the majority language, can be acquired. However, …
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The Syntax of British Sign Language: an Overview
… a range of grammatical structures found in British Sign Language, resulting in an account of the types of structures found and any possible motivations for their use. British Sign Language is the first or preferred language of a large number of Deaf people in Britain, and may have as many as …
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Content-prioritised video coding for British Sign Language communication.
Video communication of British Sign Language (BSL) is important for remote interpersonal communication and for the equal provision of services for deaf people. However, the use of video telephony and video conferencing applications for BSL communication is limited by inadequate video quality. BSL …
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Describing and Remembering Motion Events in British Sign Language
… and Cause (the source of/reason for the Motion). Languages differ in preferences for provision and packaging of semantic components in descriptions. It has been suggested, in the thinking-for-speaking hypothesis, that these preferences influence the conceptualisation of events (such as their …
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A Phenomenological Study into British Sign Language Users’ Experiences of Psychological Therapies
The provision of mental health services for Deaf people in the United Kingdom is mostly from secondary and tertiary health care that caters for the moderate to severe spectrum of mental health issues with little provision from primary care such as psychological therapies. Improving Access to …
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UNITED OR DIVIDED? A sociocultural study of conflict among British Sign Language users in the workplace
… to the dynamics of everyday interaction among British Sign Language (BSL) users in the workplace in this study. This research aims to explore Deaf and hearing BSL users’ experiences of working together, and to consider the causes of conflict among this group. The research identifies BSL users’ …
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An exploration of the efficacy of instructor modelling in the application of situated learning to educating student British Sign Language/English interpreters in healthcare interpreting
… to determine whether the performance of student sign language interpreters in simulated healthcare assignments was positively impacted by viewing a modelled interpretation, done by an experienced interpreter beforehand. It also explores the benefits of situating learning in a semi-authentic …
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To What Extent Does Learning a Sign Language Orthography (SLO) Support Deaf Children’s Bi-literacy Development? An Investigation into the Relationship Between SLO Acquisition and British Sign Language and English Development.
… examines the extent to which learning Sign Language Orthography (SLO), through an original intervention based on BSLwrite, enhances the development of biliteracy in deaf children in both British Sign Language (BSL) and English. This study aimed to investigate the connection between the …
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Personal experience narratives in the deaf community: Identifying deaf-world typicality
… community in Britain comprises people who use British Sign Language (BSL) to communicate and who share similar lived experiences. The storied lives of Deaf people, told in the community through personal experience narratives, provide insight into the issues that arise from being Deaf in a …
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The role of interpreters in accessing psychological support and developing relationships in mental health and Deafness
… Consequently, the review considers how access to sign language interpreters, education, and collaboration between deaf clients, interpreters and mental health services are instrumental in generating change and improving access. In a further exploration of the experience of mental health care for …
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The Electric: a novel and critical commentary investigating narrative disruption in sign language, cinemagoing, and trauma
… – a common theme of research in the fields of British Sign Language, cinemagoing, and remembered trauma. The novel is comprised of two interwoven time-frames. Through the middle part of the twentieth century, Daisy, unhappy in her marriage to an ambitious policeman, takes solace in cinema, and …
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Deaf Children's Developing Sign Bilingualism: Dimensions Of Language Ability, Use And Awareness
… is deafchildren's developing bilingualism in British Sign Language and English (sign bilingualism). Sign bilingualism differs from bilingualism in two spoken languages in that the two languages are differently perceived and produced. This thesis explores individual sign bilingualism focusing …
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The numeral system of Japanese Sign Language from a cross-linguistic perspective
This thesis investigates how the Japanese Sign Language (JSL) numeral system can be characterised with respect to aspects of the linguistic structure of JSL numerals at the phonological and morphological levels; to typological comparisons with other sign languages; and, finally, to sociolinguistic …
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"Hands off our language!" Deaf sign language teachers' perspectives on sign language standardisation
… of the absence of codified standard varieties of British Sign Language (BSL) and German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebclrdensprache, DGS), there have been repeated calls for the standardisation of both languages primarily from outside the deaf communities. The development of standard varieties has …
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An analysis of the assessment and treatment of problematic and offending behaviours in the deaf population
… based on the perceptions of professionals and British Sign Language interpreters who have experience of working with Deaf people involved in the CJS as well as police officers’ experiences. The findings revealed that neither the professionals working with Deaf people involved in the CJS, nor …
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Deaf people and career advice: Applying structuration theory to encounters between deaf and hearing people
… the inherent disadvantages of communication and language, education and knowledge, identity and perceptions of deafness. It summarises the experiences of deaf people in and seeking employment and the skills required in job seeking. Communication between lay people and professionals and between …
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Language, thought and deafness : conceptual and methodological issues, with reference to visual-spatial processing, control of attention and sign language
… processing and the relationship of these to language in severely and profoundly prelingually deaf children between the ages of 2 and 6 years, whose primary means of communication is British Sign language (BSL). These were examined using tests of problems solving, memory, intelligence and …
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Real-time Immersive human-computer interaction based on tracking and recognition of dynamic hand gestures
… virtual world. Presented in this thesis is the design and development of a novel real-time HCI system based on a unique combination of a pair of data gloves based on fibre-optic curvature sensors to acquire finger joint angles, a hybrid tracking system based on inertia and ultrasound to capture …
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The blossom method: development of a somatic psychotherapy model, its use in clinical and everyday settings: a heuristic, reflexive inquiry
… of being raised by a profoundly deaf, non-signing mother. It is recognised that parent-child communication and connectivity has been complex for the author, which influenced their decision to study linguistics and undertake immersion training as a sign language interpreter with a …