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Even Facebook have Sign Language videos!

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Seek the World - American Sign Language V.S. Guatemalan... | Facebook

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American Sign Language V.S. Guatemalan Sign Language (GSL) Guatemalan Sign Language is the national deaf sign language used in Guatemala. The first dictionary was published in 2000. It is distinct from the sign languages used in Mexico and other neighboring Spanish-speaking countries, and from Highland Maya Sign Language, which is used among K'iche' Maya of rural Guatemala.

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Australian Sign Language alphabet.  The term Auslan is an acronym of "Australian Sign Language".

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Czech Sign Language alphabet

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Portugal Sign Langauge

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Italian Sign Language alphabet

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French Sign Language alphabet

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Chinese Sign Language alphabet

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What type of signs does Signing Savvy include? Does the Signing Savvy dictionary contain strictly American Sign Language (ASL)?

Signing Savvy is a sign language dictionary containing several thousand high-resolution videos of American Sign Language (ASL) signs, fingerspelled words, and other common signs used within the United States and Canada. The Signing Savvy website has grown to become the most comprehensive online sign language resource for educators, students, or anyone interested in American Sign Language.

Sometimes there are multiple ways to sign a word. There are a variety of reasons why there may be more than one way to sign a word. Although American Sign Language (ASL) is used across the United States and Canada, some signs are signed differently depending on the region, just like how English is sometimes spoken with different accents throughout North America. Additionally, sometimes signs may be updated with newer ways to be signed, especially when older signs may have originated from something that is not politically correct.

In addition to ASL signs, Signing Savvy also includes other common signs used for words, such as Signed English signs. Each word can also be viewed fingerspelled. We try to include multiple signs for words when more than one version is commonly used, however, we do not typically include less commonly used versions of signs or slang - a variety of signing experts and resources are consulted before signs are added to the Signing Savvy dictionary. We think it is important to include a variety of commonly used signs, like Signed English signs and even older, not politically correct ASL signs, because if they are commonly used (or used to be commonly used and may still be used by older signers), signers should be able to recognize them in conversation. Since ASL is the preferred language of the Deaf community, the ASL sign is almost always listed as the first variation unless the word does not have an ASL sign for it.

When a word has multiple signs, you will see clickable numbers above the video that will allow you to view the different signs variations available for that word. There is also always a "FS" option that shows you how to fingerspell the word.

To determine if a sign is ASL or English, look below the video to see the sign type (available on most signs). If you are a registered guest or full member, the sign description tells you if it is an initialized sign. Remember that most of the time if the sign is an initialized sign, then it falls under the English category.

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There are hundreds upon hundreds of books for learning and sign language (mostly ASL in the US). But what happens when a child is deaf or hard of hearing? Or what if you wants your students to appreciate the differences in the world? Create your own Sign Language story!

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Turn an Ordinary Children's Book into a Creative Sign Language Learning Tool | Signing Savvy Blog

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Children's books are often great learning tools because they are visual, help build a child's vocabulary, and kids love them! I use them all the time in...

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Here is a list of schools for students who are deaf, hard of hearing, or hearing. *Not all schools are listed*

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Alabama Institute for the Deaf & Blind, Talladega, Alabama Alaska State School for the Deaf, Anchorage, Alaska American School for the Deaf, West Hartford, Connecticut / asd2(at)mail.trincoll.edu Apollo High School, St.

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Enjoy this video to get a little taste of different sing languages from around the world.

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Mark Berry gathers some friends from around the world to demonstrate their own local Sign Language Follow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/attitudetv Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/attitude_tv See more Videos: http://attitudelive.com

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Here is a video of Pharrell's song "Happy" in Sign Language.

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Pharrell's "Happy" in ASL by Deaf Film Camp at CM7

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This article talks about some aspects of sign language that are important to understand.

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Based on the tremendous reaction to this recent piece about sign language interpretation, we thought you might like to know more about it. Here are seven things about sign language that might surprise you.

1. Different countries have different sign languages.

This is the sign for the word "math" in two different sign languages-American Sign Language on the left, and Japanese Sign Language on the right. Why should there be more than one sign language? Doesn't that just complicate things? This question would make sense if sign language was a system invented and then handed over to the deaf community as an assistive device. But sign languages, like spoken languages, developed naturally out of groups of people interacting with each other. We know this because we have observed it happen in real time.

2. Given a few generations, improvised gestures can evolve into a full language.

In 1980, the first Nicaraguan school for the deaf opened.

Students who had been previously isolated from other deaf people brought the gestures they used at home, and created a sort of pidgin sign with each other. It worked for communication, but it wasn't consistent or rule-governed. The next generation who came into the school learned the pidgin sign and spontaneously started to regularize it, creating rules for verb agreement and other consistent grammatical devices. Over time, it stabilized into a full-fledged linguistic system, ISN, or Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua.

3. Sign language does not represent spoken language.

Because sign languages develop within deaf communities, they can be independent of the surrounding spoken language. American Sign Language (ASL) is quite different from British Sign Language (BSL), despite the fact that English is the spoken language of both countries. The above picture shows the sign WHERE in BSL (on the left) and ASL (on the right).

That said, there is a lot of contact between sign language and spoken language (deaf people read and write or lipread in the surrounding language), and sign languages reflect this. English can be represented through fingerspelling or artificial systems like Signed Exact English or Cued Speech. But these are codes for spoken or written language, not languages themselves.

4. Sign languages have their own grammar.

There are rules for well-formed sentences in sign language. For example, sign language uses the space in front of the signer to show who did what to whom by pointing. However, some verbs point to both the subject and object of the verb, some point only to the object, and some don't point at all. Another rule is that a well-formed question must have the right kind of eyebrow position. Eyebrows should be down for a who-what-where-when-why question (see ASL WHERE picture above), and up for a yes/no question. If you use the rules wrong, or inconsistently, you will have a "foreign" accent!

5. Children acquire sign language in the same way they acquire spoken language

The stages of sign language acquisition are the same as those for spoken language. Babies start by "babbling" with their hands. When they first start producing words, they substitute easier handshapes for more difficult ones, making for cute "baby pronunciations." They start making sentences by stringing signs together and only later get control of all the grammatical rules. Most importantly, as seen in the above video, they learn through natural interaction with the people around them.

6. Brain damage affects sign language in the same way it affects spoken language.

When fluent signers have a stroke or brain injury, they may lose the ability to sign, but not to make imitative or non-sign gestures. They may be able to produce signs, but not put them in the correct grammatical configurations. They may be able to produce sentences, but with the signs formed incorrectly, creating a strange accent. They may be able to sign quickly and easily, but without making any sense. We know from studying speaking people that "making sounds" is quite different from "using language" because these functions are affected differently by brain damage. The same is true for signers. Neurologically, making gestures is quite different from using sign language.

7. Sign language is a visual language.

This one is pretty obvious, but it's important to mention. Sign language is just like spoken language in many ways, but it's also different. Sign can be very straightforward and formal, but it can also take full advantage of its visual nature for expressive or artistic effect, as shown in the story in this video. Which, when you think about it, doesn't make sign language all that different after all. For expressive purposes, we can take full advantage of spoken language's auditory nature. We can also take advantage of facial expressions and gestures when we speak. Everything that would be in an artistic spoken performance-the words, the ordering of clauses, the pauses, the breath intake, the intonation and melody, the stressing or deemphasizing of sounds, the facial and vocal emotion, the body posture and head and hand gestures-come through together in sign language. It looks amazing not because it shows us what sign language can do, but because it shows us what language does.

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7 Things You Should Know About Sign Language

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Based on the tremendous reaction to this recent piece about sign language interpretation, we thought you might like to know more about it. Here are seven things about sign language that might surprise you. 1. Different countries have different sign languages.

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Even though the Spanish Sign Language alphabet is similar, there are some differences.

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This Padlet is about Sign Language. Sign Language is NOT universal. Depending are where you are in the world or where you are within a country, the language is different.

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ASL is American Sign Language. This sign language is used in the USA. When signing the alphabet, it is called fingerspelling.