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American Sign Language (ASL) vs. Signed English, 1996.
Compares origins, techniques, aims, applications & effectiveness of two approaches to education of deaf children.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 47.95
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"American Sign Language verses Signed English
American Sign Language began being used in the early 1800s (Bochner & Albertini 14). It is now recognised as a separate language apart from English. The linguistical constraints of ASL are different from those of spoken or signed English. In the 1960s, several groups of professionals were concerned about the academic levels, especially reading levels, of hearing impaired students. In reaction to these low scores, methods of encoding English into sign were begun. ASL, signed English, and spoken English are valid forms of communication. The big question is: Should deaf or hearing impaired children be taught in English or in another language? In the United States children are taught to read and write in English. Deaf children who are primarily ASL.."
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Oralism vs. American Sign Language, 2007.
This paper argues in favor of the deaf or hard of hearing using American Sign Language or their native language over oralism or other methods of communication.
1,302 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 43.95
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This paper explores the tradition of oralism vs. American Sign Language (ASL) in the West. Specifically the researcher proposes that deaf and hard of hearing students should be afforded opportunities to learn using their native language or American Sign Language. Forcing students to adopt other methods of learning including oralism or Signing Exact English (SEE) may promote frustration and inhibits learning in the classroom. This paper reviews the potential merits and demerits of each tradition, highlighting the significance of providing students with resources to use ASL in the classroom.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Personal Philosophy
The Essential Nature of Human Beings
Basic Meaning or Purpose of Life
Determination of Morality
Constancy of Life: Unchanging or Always Changing?
Philosophy of Education
My Perception of an Educational Philosophy
Why do you need a Philosophy?
What has been the Basis or Source of your Educational Philosophy?
How has your Philosophy Changed or Evolved over Time?
My formal Ideological and Philosophical Orientation
The Purpose of Education, Teaching and Schooling
Are Students Intrinsically Motivated to Learn?
Should Schools Address Human Differences such as Multiple Intelligence, Learning Styles etc. ?
Topics
Knowledge and Content
Knowledge with Knowing
My Conceptual Framework for Improving my Practice
Theoretical Framework for Improving Practice
Skills Competencies Necessary
Educational Skills Required
Communication Skills and Content
Nonverbal Communication Skills
Verbal Communication
Influence of Interpersonal Relationships
Importance of Self-Identity
Peer Relations
Influence of Support Networks
Knowledge and Learning
Direct vs. Indirect Learning
Direct vs. Indirect Communication
Conclusion
Reference
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"Many consider American Sign Language (ASL) the standard language beneficial for hard of hearing and deaf citizens. However, oralism shares a rich history much the same as ASL, and many often argue the potential merits and demerits of using one vs. another in an educational and communicational context. Wilcox & Peyton (1999) recognize that ASL is a fully developed language with unique grammar requirements distinguished from the English language (Coltrane, 2006). Oralism contrarily, involves lip reading to understand speech instead of using ASL to communicate with one another (Coltrane, 2006). This study will help review the merits and demerits of each, questioning whether one vs. the other is more beneficial for promoting communication and sharing among the deaf or hard of hearing community, or whether a combination of both may result in less frustrating choices among the hard of hearing and deaf community. "
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American Sign Language (ASL), 2007.
This paper discuses American Sign Language (ASL) and its contribution to the understanding of the development of language.
945 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 33.95
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This paper explains that American Sign Language (ASL) involves home signs that resemble the objects, which they are meant to indicate. The author points out that, like any other language, ASL has its abbreviations, slang and contractions, often used by omitting full signs when fluent persons are conversing, especially in groups of persons known to one another. The paper stresses that ASL is a dynamic, evolving language that responds to cultural and environmental changes. The author underscores that the inventors of the prime ASL symbols and gestures could not imagine the impact of the Internet or various technology-assisted devices now available to persons who cannot hear or speak as others do.
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"ASL includes symbols and actions that are just as arbitrary as spoken language. When consulting a person fluent in ASL, she noted that with many people having become fluent in the language over time and with the particular ways in which ASL was taught, some 'shortcuts' or abbreviations had become usual, understood by deaf persons with whom she spoke or when observing third persons communicate in ASL who were not deaf. Some symbols refer obviously to the objects or actions they represent but others are just customary, ... "
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American Sign Language, 2000.
A look at the language developed to help deaf speak to each other.
1,170 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper argues that American Sign Language is the ultimate mode of communication for the deaf community. It explains that like any other language, ASL changes and evolves to meet the needs of those who use it. The same as no two hearing people pronounce a word exactly alike, no two deaf people sign exactly alike. It concludes that American Sign Language is a complete, natural language that is growing everyday.
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"American Sign Language (ASL) is a visual language used by the deaf people in America and parts of Canada. Deafness, by definition, is the inability to hear spoken language, to discriminate and reproduce speech (Neisser 8). Because they weren t able to understand sound or speech, ASL was developed by American Deaf people to communicate with each other and exists as long as there are Deaf Americans."
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American Sign Language, 2002.
A comprehensive paper on the history, development and use of American Sign Language (ASL).
3,987 words (approx. 15.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 108.95
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This paper examines the use of ASL as the main form of communication between the hearing-impaired and discusses reasons for its popularity. Different features and unique methods of ASL are mentioned and explained. The paper discusses how ASL has spread to be recognized as a proper language and how it is being offered as an accredited course in some universities. It also looks at how sign language has been adopted by animal trainer and scientists to study communication amongst animals.
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"Sign language is a language of gestures and hand symbols used to communicate due to a number of reasons including, language barriers, ritual, or disabilities, such as speech impairment and/or deafness. Sign languages, like oral languages, "are acquired spontaneously and have highly intricate, rule-governed signs grammar and phonology" (Sign pg). Hand configuration, movement, and body position are the three classes of features that make up individual signs (Sign pg). There are numerous sign languages, including "those of Trappist monks, who have a rule of silence, and Plains Indians, where speakers of mutually unintelligible language communicated freely," moreover, "Australian aborigines and people of Sudan and the Sahara also have a complete sign language" (Sign pg). Many languages have incorporated body gestures to elaborate, accompany or supplement speech. The language of sign for the deaf was first systematized by Charles Michel de l'Epee during the Eighteen century introduced in the United States by T.H. Gallaudet (Sign pg). "As with any sign language, only a small percentage of signs suggest the form of thought they represent" (Sign pg). There are many dictionaries of sign available, including the American Sign Language, ASL, the most popular used for the hearing impaired."
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American Sign Language, 2004.
An overview of learning American sign language.
2,020 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper discusses the hypothesis that learning and using sign language is relatively easy to do because there are so many books and web sites available that teaches it to anyone who wants to learn. The paper presents a personal account of an encounter with a deaf person and the writer's exposure to sign language. The writer's ultimate realization of what it means to be deaf is described.
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"American Sign Language is well represented on the internet and in libraries. You can take classes in schools like community colleges or special schools for the deaf and in some cases through community services or the local Recreation Council. Like the English language, the American Sign Language base is in constant flux. Just like the English language, they had to add terms for the internet and web sites and any new thing or technology. "New word definitions are being added, and this will soon bring the total number of American Sign Language terms to more than 1270! Also included is the basic alphabet and numbers 1-10." (American Sign Language)"
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Sign Language, 2003.
Discusses the development of sign language competency and communication skills in children.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 8 sources, $ 71.95
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Presents conflicting approaches to education of deaf children or children with vocal language impairments. Discusses educational philosophy and American Sign Language (ASL).
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"While sign languages are generally regarded as languages that are most useful for individuals with hearing or verbal communication impairments, research suggests that such languages are also useful in other contexts ..."
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American Sign Language Interpreters, 2005.
A look at the importance of ASL interpreters in a classroom setting.
2,014 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper explains that ASL interpreters in classrooms are important for the deaf student if they are to experience a normal and successful education in the classroom setting. The writer shows that the student who is deaf and suffers speech impairments or impediments and also is not receiving special educational assistance, will be the student that is sure to get left behind in educational pursuits. It concludes that the post-secondary classrooms must take the initiative in preparing students for the world after the education has been achieved.
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"Issues in relation to access and success in an integrated academic setting are discussed relating to student characteristics, interpreter characteristics, and educational settings. According to Marschark, et al. (2005) despite the accorded importance of sign language interpreting for many deaf students there is surprisingly little research concerning the outcomes in terms of effectiveness in the classroom. This work reviews 23 interpreters, 105 deaf students, and 22 hearing students. The study was focused on the student's gains from two university-level lectures. Finding in the study were that hearing impaired students gained less from the lectures than did the hearing students."
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American Sign Language, 1989.
Compares components & acquisition of ASL & verbal English. Discusses grammar, ideas, timetables, symbols, naming, vocabulary and holophrasic words.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 3 sources, $ 71.95
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"The acquisition of language in a child is a wondrous and complex act, not fully understood by professionals in the field of linguistics. To understand how humans acquire language would be to understand the very inner nature of man, what separates him or her from other animals, the physical and social evolutionary process among humans, and the precise structure of the thought processes that are learned and inherent, similar and unique, in every human being."
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To Sign or Not to Sign?, 2001.
A discussion on the role of American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters.
1,140 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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This paper presents a detailed examination of the role of American Sign Language Interpreters. The writer provides the basics of what the job entails and how it is done. In addition the writer describes recent conflicts about the use of sign language as opposed to other means of communication and how that affects the careers of ASL interpreters.
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"Each year, children are born without the ability to hear. Many more lose the ability due to disorder, disease or accidents. We do not appreciate the ability to hear until we meet someone who cannot do so. The ability to hear affects almost every aspect of life, especially when one is young and trying to learn to read or do other academic tasks. The job of an American Sign Language interpreter, in regards to children and students is to assist in the learning process as well as the child's need and ability to communicate with the hearing world. They not only tell the world what the deaf are trying to say, but they also report to the deaf what the hearing world is telling them. In recent years there has been controversial debate as to the need for ASL and interpreters. A grassroots movement has begun to encourage other means of communication. The world of the deaf is currently divided into separate camps; those who consider themselves purists and want to continue with ASL and those who want it abolished because it sends a signal to the world that they are different. While the battle wages the ASL interpreters are caught in the crossfire, and children who are deaf wait to see what they will be taught."
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Sign and Oral, 2002.
An analysis of sign language and oral anguage.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 12 sources, $ 89.95
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This ten-page post-graduate paper compares and contrasts sign language and oral language. The author examines various aspects of the two types of language, offers specific examples of differences and similarities, and analyzes the respective effectiveness and structure of both types.
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Cynewulf's Signed Poems, 2008.
An analysis of Cynewulf's use of colophons in his four signed poems: "Juliana", "Christ II", "Elene", and "Fates".
1,221 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 16 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper analyzes Cynewulf's four signed poems. The paper specifically discusses the colophons of the signed poems and describes what they tell us about Cynewulf's poetic practice. The paper cites many examples from the four poems, "Juliana," "Christ II," "Elene" and "Fates" and shows how "Elene" differs from his other three signed poems.
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"Cynewulf's self-presentation is ambivalent. He is a sinner and distant from God. Yet he is not fully self-abasing. In Christ II he speaks of himself explicitly as a teacher of men, which he also does implicitly in the other poems, indicating that although he is sinful, he is at least knowledgeable about how a Christian ought to behave. And the act of writing, of educating people and asking their aid, is a deed that may eventually lead to his salvation. He takes credit for the majority of his writing rather than claiming it as divine inspiration. Only in Elene does he involve God in the poetic process. Finally, the very presence of the signatures and colophons indicate a strong sense of himself as a poet. He has worked his name into the poems in such a way that it cannot be removed without damaging the poem. And he has appended personal colophons to four poems in contrast to any of their original sources. Although he has failings as a man, Cynewulf conceives of his poetry as a means to salvation."
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"The Hand that Signed the Paper", 2005.
An analysis of the poem "The Hand That Signed The Paper" by Dylan Thomas.
1,100 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 38.95
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The paper discusses Dylan Thomas' perception of power and the enormity of it in his poem "The Hand That Signed The Paper". The paper also looks at the theme of war and of the Bible. The paper identifies the imagery and sound devices used. The paper is of the opinion that this unrivalled style and these themes contribute to a positive response to the poem.
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"Essentially, this poem, written when Dylan Thomas was just 21 years of age, depicts and explores his perception of power, and the enormity of it. This idea of power was particularly appropriate when this was written, during the after math of war. Thus it is no surprise that Thomas, being a highly opinionated figure at the time, ensured that his voice was heard through his poetry. The poem challenges that we place too much emphasis on a leader and hence, this results in one person controlling a decision concerning many. In essence, "The hand that signed the paper" shows that power is such an influential device and that it can be used in many ways, for good or for bad. However, particularly to the poem, it portrays the consequences when power is used in an evil way, depicting an immense amount of pain and suffering caused by a decision of a person in a position of great power."
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Autism & Language Disorders, 1989.
Examines definition, symptoms, social & developmental disabilities, language structure, treatment, sign language.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 9 sources, $ 47.95
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"This paper will discuss the topic of autism and language disorders. Autism is a condition in which the subject shows little or no inclination for social interactions with family, peers or caregivers (McCormick & Schiefelbusch, 1984, p. 99). In addition to social unresponsiveness, autistic persons tend to show an obsessive interest for sameness in their environment and ". . . often exhibit inappropriate repetitive actions such as hand flapping, rocking, or head banging" (Hecht, 1986, p. 111). The majority of children with autism show low intellectual ability as well as signs of mental retardation (MacCormick & Schiefelbusch, 1984, p. 99). Because of this factor, autistic children tend to exhibit a variety of learning disabilities. Among the most devastating of these to the social integration of autistic children are disabilities that relate to the development..."
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Signs and Miracles, 2005.
This paper is a personal essay based on the Old and New Testaments, analyzing if signs and miracles are present today.
780 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper explains that Christ used miracles and signs of wonder upon the earth, not as acts of magic, but of showing the ability of the divine to be made flesh, of being able to make the world a good place in its physical as well as its spiritual essence. The author stresses that every time an individual rises from bed every day, weathers the difficulties of ordinary existence in the physical, sinning world and still accomplishes good, these acts are a kind of miracle. The paper concludes that, today, signs of miracles are everywhere, if only one looks at the goodness of the world and the manifestation of Christ.
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"One cannot demand signs and miracles of the world and of God. Such manifestations of faith occur spontaneously, of course. The Acts of the Apostles 2:22 says that Christ's manifestation of signs and miracles proved him a man of God. Yet signs and miracles are ever-present in the world today, in extraordinary as well as ordinary manifestations. To dwell in a God-created world is a miracle."
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