scholarly journals The Effects on English Teaching with American Sign Language to Increase Vocabulary for Hearing Impaired Children in the Elementary Level

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-407
Author(s):  
성기록 ◽  
CHOI, SUNG KYU
Keyword(s):  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
American Sign ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

scholarly journals Interpretation and Translation of American Sign Language for Hearing Impaired Individuals using Image Processing

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-420
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Hand Gesture ◽  
American Sign ◽  
The Past ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Live Image

The growth of technology has influenced development in various fields. Technology has helped people achieve their dreams over the past years. One such field that technology involves is aiding the hearing and speech impaired people. The obstruction between common individuals and individuals with hearing and language incapacities can be resolved by using the current technology to develop an environment such that the aforementioned easily communicate among one and other. ASL Interpreter aims to facilitate communication among the hearing and speech impaired individuals. This project mainly focuses on the development of software that can convert American Sign Language to Communicative English Language and vice-versa. This is accomplished via Image-Processing. The latter is a system that does a few activities on a picture, to acquire an improved picture or to extricate some valuable data from it. Image processing in this project is done by using MATLAB, software by MathWorks. The latter is programmed in a way that it captures the live image of the hand gesture. The captured gestures are put under the spotlight by being distinctively colored in contrast with the black background. The contrasted hand gesture will be delivered in the database as a binary equivalent of the location of each pixel and the interpreter would now link the binary value to its equivalent translation delivered in the database. This database shall be integrated into the mainframe image processing interface. The Image Processing toolbox, which is an inbuilt toolkit provided by MATLAB is used in the development of the software and Histogramic equivalents of the images are brought to the database and the extracted image will be converted to a histogram using the ‘imhist()’ function and would be compared with the same. The concluding phase of the project i.e. translation of speech to sign language is designed by matching the letter equivalent to the hand gesture in the database and displaying the result as images. The software will use a webcam to capture the hand gesture made by the user. This venture plans to facilitate the way toward learning gesture-based communication and supports hearing-impaired people to converse without trouble.

Inflectional Morphemes in the Manual English of Young Hearing-Impaired Children and Their Mothers

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen E. Crandall
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Good Predictor ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Syntactic Function ◽  
Inflectional Morphemes ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Spontaneous sign-language samples were collected in a controlled interactive situation from 20 young hearing-impaired children and their mothers. Inflectional morphemes in the samples were described by cher attributes and classified for syntactic function within utterances. Inflectional morpheme productivity did not increase significantly with age; mean manual English morphemes per utterance did increase with age. The first six inflectional morphemes used by the children studied were the same as those used by normal-hearing children. A good predictor of the child’s use of inflectional morphemes was the mother’s use of these morphemes.

Pragmatic and Linguistic Constraints on Message Formulation

1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1346-1361
Author(s):  
Paula M. Brown ◽  
Susan D. Fischer ◽  
Wynne Janis
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Hearing Status ◽  
Linguistic Constraints ◽  
Production Decision

This study provides a cross-linguistic replication, using American Sign Language (ASL), of the Brown and Dell (1987) finding that when relaying an action involving an instrument, English speakers are more likely to explicitly mention the instrument if it is atypically, rather than typically, used to accomplish that action. Subjects were 20 hearing-impaired users of English and 20 hearing-impaired users of ASL. Each subject read and retold, in either English or ASL, 20 short stories. Analyses of the stories revealed production decision differences between ASL and English, but no differences related to hearing status. In ASL, there is more explicitness, and importance seems to play a more pivotal role in instrument specification. The results are related to differences in the typology of English and ASL and are discussed with regard to secondlanguage learning and translation

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