EXPERIENCES OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION AMONG YOUNG DEAF ADULTS INFLUENCING THEIR BELIEFS AND PERCEPTIONS OF HIV/AIDS by Amanda Ismail, Neil Henderson

“…This paper advocates for policymakers to include deaf people, particularly sign language users, in HIV-prevention programmes.…”
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Changing concepts of positive patient communication in dentistry and orthodontics: South Indian perspective by Gobichettipalayam Jagatheeswaran AnbuSelvan, Subramani Raja, Praburajan Vilvanathan, Nazargi Megabob, Krishnan Prabhakar

“…The world of communication has changed greatly over the centuries of mankind from sounds, sign languages, speech, development of language and in modern times using machines like the computer, mobile and internet. …”
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Access to Knowledge by Mantovan, Lara, Cardinaletti, Anna, Geraci, Carlo, Duarte, Kyle

“…Linguistic mediation through sign language guarantees both direct access to content and personal involvement in interactive settings. …”
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Marker-based hand gesture interaction system by Goh, Chong Yang

“…Application: The gesture interaction system is useful in the development of immersive gaming technology, sign language interpretation, freehand device controllers and robotics. …”
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Neural network structure for spatio-temporal long-term memory by Nguyen, Vu Anh, Goh, Wooi Boon, Jachyra, Daniel, Starzyk, Janusz A.

“…We demonstrate the potential of the framework with a series of synthetic simulations and the Australian sign language (ASL) dataset. Results show that our LTM model is robust to different types of distortions. …”
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Libras e ensino de biologia para surdos: uma proposta de sequência didática by Alessandra Conceição dos Santos, Eleilton Conceição de Jesus, Emily dos Santos Coutinho, Natalí de Jesus Santos, Gabriel Vidinha Corrêa

“…To this end, through a bibliographic research, categories such as education for the deaf, sign language, linguistic and educational policies, didactic sequence and teaching biology for the deaf will be mobilized. …”
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Level of satisfaction and sexual and reproductive health needs of deaf persons in Ghana: a sequential explanatory mixed method study by Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Juventus Duorinaah, William Nketsia

“…Conclusion Deaf persons who took part in this study were unsatisfied with SRH services due to barriers such as sign language interpreters and inaccessible information. …”
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Design and development of e-learning environment for deaf students in learning nuclear energy by Mohd. Hashim, Mohd. Hisyamuddin

“…This research found that the learning patterns of deaf students who achieved the best increment category of performance accessed the sign language videos more frequently compared to other deaf students.…”
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Informed consent and deafness in South Africa: Guidelines for clinicians and researchers by C Penn, V de Andrade

“…Misconceptions held by the hearing community about hearing loss and the impact of amplification of hearing, as well as on the nature of signed language, may jeopardise the process. This is particularly the case in the complex sociopolitical context of South Africa, which has significantly influenced the educational and linguistic status of deaf persons. …”
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Storytelling tool for hearing-impaired children by Goh, Ying Fei.

“…The basic principle of the program is such that a text input results in the animated 3D character to convey the meaning of the word through sign language. The language used in this case is SEE (Signing Exact English) applicable to the Singaporean context.…”
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Comprehension of spoken, written and signed sentences in childhood language disorders. by Bishop, D

“…It is shown that the comprehension problems of children with landau-Kleffner syndrome are not restricted to spoken language, but are also found when written or signed language is used. Further, in all three language modalities these children show deviant patterns of comprehension consistent with the notion that they treat language as having a sequential rather than a hierarchical structure. …”

The role of emoji in enhancing communication between people through the application of Messenger and WhatsApp by علي حسن

“…It also includes elements of the non-verbal medium. Sign language and facial expressions can reveal what a person is trying to express through a face-to-face conversation. …”
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LIBRAS PERNAMBUCANA: SUBSÍDIOS PARA UMA PROPOSTA LEXICOGRÁFICA REGIONAL by Severina Batista de Farias Klimsa, Bernardo Luís Torres Klimsa

“…This article presents a fragment of a research in progress to create a dictionary entitled “Libras Pernambucana”, by the Research Group and Studies of the Lexicon of Libras – GRUPELL at UFPE, with signs of the Brazilian Sign Language used by the deaf community in Pernambuco. …”

Understanding of Deaf Students Using Interactive Media of the BISINDO Sign Speaking Song (Merakit-Yura Yunita) in Online Learning by Shintia Dwi Alika, Amalia Beladinna Arifa, Asti Dwi Sripamuji, Julian Saputra, Risa Riski Amalia, Imada Ramadhanti

“…The results of the research showed that the use of the interactive media of the BISINDO sign language song (Merakit-Yura Yunita) could be applied to online learning for deaf students at the school. …”
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Prépositions et langage chez de jeunes sourds profonds oralistes by Laurence Vincent-Durroux

“…As concerns missing prepositions, phonological and cognitive hypotheses can be considered, in relation to space, time, categorisation, and the description of prepositions in Belgian Sign Language. The results are discussed in terms of predication, of the specificity of the French preposition "pour", and the possible role of visual representation of the relationships between referents.…”
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REHABILITATION POTENTIAL OF PRE-LINGUISTIC CHILDREN WITH COCHLEAR IMPLANT IN THE ASPECT OF COHERENT SPEECH MASTERING by Ольга Юрьевна Синевич, Татьяна Юрьевна Четверикова

“…Pre-lingual children with a cochlear implant have higher rates of coherent speech development, their communication is carried out without the use of dactyl and sign language.…”
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Bilingual Learning for Language Development of Deaf Children in the Context of Intercultural Education by Anna Irasiak

“…It also presents the situation of people with hearing impairment and the culture they create on the basis of sign language, a way of communication different from the dominant one, in relation with the culture of the dominant group, people who are perfectly able and use the phonic language. …”
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Teaching languages to deaf students in Brazil at the intersection of discourses by Larissa Bassi Piconi

“…For this purpose, it proposes an analysis of a set of materials produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Education aimed at situating means through which to act, represent and identify the deaf, as well as practices of teaching Brazilian Sign Language and Portuguese to this social group, based on the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework. …”
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Evaluative language in spoken and signed stories told by a deaf child with a cochlear implant: words, signs or paralinguistic expressions? by Lea Nieminen, Ritva Takkinen

“…The subject, an 11-year-old Finnish boy, Jimmy, is bilingual in Finnish sign language (FinSL) and spoken Finnish. He was born deaf but got a cochlear implant at the age of five. …”
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Dynamic Bilingualism to Dynamic Writing: Using Translanguaging Strategies and Tools by Onudeah D. Nicolarakis, Thomas Mitchell

“…The findings show that high-scoring deaf participants utilized translanguaging writing strategies and tools such as <i>translingual interdependence</i>, <i>language flexibility</i>, <i>semiotics and multimodalities</i>, <i>American Sign Language (ASL) drafting</i>, and <i>visual tracking skills</i> that led to their writing achievement.…”
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