Sign language

language which uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning

OK hand gesture

covert gesture to indicate domestic violence

annual UN observance on September 23

signed language systems used with hearing infants/toddlers

September observance

Makaton is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) system which uses signs (hand gestures) and symbols (images) alongside speech and written words to support communication. Despite its use of signs, Makaton is not a sign language.

Soundpainting is a universal multi-disciplinary live-composing sign language for every kind of artist (musicians, actors, dancers, visual artists), and is still evolving since its creation in 1974 by Walter Thompson in Woodstock, New York. Soundpainting gives to the soundpainter (the composer) the possibility to compose multi-disciplinary creations in real time by signing gestures (more than 1500 different signs in 2023) to indicate the material the performers will realize and the soundpainter will shape into the composition.

communication used by people with sight and hearing impairment

academic disciplines concerned with the study of the deaf social life of human groups and individuals

overview of the legal recognition of sign languages by country

organization

In sign languages, handshape, or dez, refers to the distinctive configurations that the hands take as they are used to form words. In Stokoe terminology it is known as the , an abbreviation of designator. Handshape is one of five components of a sign, along with location (), orientation (), movement (), and nonmanual features. Different sign languages make use of different handshapes.

album by Signmark

in sign language, distinctive postures and facial expressions necessary to form words

Spreadthesign is an online multilingual sign languages dictionary. Searching for words and sentences provides the corresponding signs within the target sign language. Spreadthesign is available as a free access learning tool both as a website and an app. The project is largely supported by public institutions, public funding and public partnerships, universities and academics. Produced contents and software are published under proprietary licences.

Manualism, also known as the French Method, is a method of education of deaf students using sign language within the classroom. Manualism arose in the late 18th century with the advent of free public schools for the deaf in Europe. These teaching methods were brought over to the United States where the first school for the deaf was established in 1817. Today manualism methods are used in conjunction with oralism methods in the majority of American deaf schools.

sign language grammar