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Martin Dale-Hench – Sign Language Studies, 2024
This article explores turn-taking in Japanese Sign Language ( JSL) by using Baker's (1977) framework. JSL as a language is wholly unrelated to American Sign Language (ASL), but because Baker and other discourse analysts have always been concerned mostly with ASL and European sign languages, it remains to be seen if Asian sign languages such as JSL…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Japanese, Interaction, Attention
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Brittany A. Dale; Raschelle Neild – American Annals of the Deaf, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic placed stress on all aspects of the educational system. Many state departments of education acknowledged the disruption to individualized education program evaluation and implementation but insisted that evaluation timelines and services continue undisrupted. School psychologists were therefore forced to navigate the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities, Individualized Education Programs
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Jones, Elaine G.; Goldsmith, Melissa; Effken, Judith; Button, Kevin; Crago, Michael – American Annals of the Deaf, 2010
Deaf adults' access to smoking cessation programs is limited due to cultural, linguistic, and geographic barriers. Web-based stop-smoking interventions have demonstrated cessation rates comparable to other interventions. The Internet is widely used by Deaf adults, but difficulties with online English text remain. We found no published accounts of…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Smoking, Internet, American Sign Language
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Ditcharoen, Nadh; Naruedomkul, Kanlaya; Cercone, Nick – Computers & Education, 2010
Learning a second language is very difficult, especially, for the disabled; the disability may be a barrier to learn and to utilize information written in text form. We present the SignMT, Thai sign to Thai machine translation system, which is able to translate from Thai sign language into Thai text. In the translation process, SignMT takes into…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Syntax, Translation
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Fels, Deborah I.; Richards, Jan; Hardman, Jim; Lee, Daniel G. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2006
The World Wide Web has changed the way people interact. It has also become an important equalizer of information access for many social sectors. However, for many people, including some sign language users, Web accessing can be difficult. For some, it not only presents another barrier to overcome but has left them without cultural equality. The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Internet, Web Sites, Computer Mediated Communication
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Aedo, I.; And Others – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1994
Examines the possibilities and advantages of computers in teaching hearing-impaired children. A method of using computers to improve the spoken and written communication skills of the hearing impaired is presented. Suggests that Hypertext and multimedia technologies can be successfully applied to speech therapy teaching, lip-reading teaching,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries