Sign Language – It is a manual communication that can be commonly used by those individuals who are deaf or impaired hearing problems. Sign language is also a visual language, which uses facial expressions, body language, hand shapes, and gestures. This type of language has its own grammar and vocabulary. Sign language helps deaf individuals to communicate with individuals including family members and friends.
Sign language is not a universal language and deaf individuals from different countries speak several sign languages. It means that each country has different sign languages for deaf people to talk to their family members and friends. The gestures or several symbols are used in sign language that are organized linguistically and each individual gesture is known as a sign. In sign language, each sign has three different parts such as the movement of the hands, the handshape, and the position of the hands.
Benefits of sign language – There are several benefits of sign language for deaf individuals are given below –
- It increases the level of confidence among deaf individuals.
- It helps deaf individuals to talk with their family members and friends.
- Deaf children may communicate by using sign language more easily as compared with verbal language.
- Sign language is one of the best options for those individuals who are deaf and impaired hearing problems to communicate with their family members and friends.
- Sign language helps deaf children to remember words and also enhances vocabulary which is beneficial for the future.
- It helps in increasing the capability to interpret body language among deaf individuals as it involves body language and facial expressions.
- It helps deaf individuals to make strong relationships with their family members including parents and close friends through communication by using sign
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In signing, does it make a difference if you do something with the left hand instead of the right? For example, “Fall” – as a lefty, my instinct is to bring my right hand up and use my left to go across.
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So is there a “correct” way? Or as in “Fall” is either left or right coming down ok? Definitely curious – sign language is so amazing. I was at a concert and there was a signer, or are they interpreters?, in the front corner of the pit crowd
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Thanks for sharing important information about sign language
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When I trained in British Sign Language, left handed signers used their dominant hand as the main anchor. So Fall would be shown using the left hand. Signing does use directional and positional space to tell stories however. So sometimes it can be very fluent in the storytelling. Then you would mix hands and then place in different areas when signing. If you yourself described falling forwards or backwards your ‘single’ fall sign would change direction. If you fell and hurt yourself badly, your face would express the emotion of pain. But in general, a sign basic, like Fall, then yes, use the left hand if left handed. Hope this helps. All the best.
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Yes thank you!
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