Listed below is a couple of options I have found on National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorder website.
- Auditory-oral and auditory-verbal options combine natural hearing ability and hearing devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants with other strategies to help children develop speech and English-language skills. Auditory-oral options use visual cues such as lipreading and sign language, while auditory-verbal options work to strengthen listening skills.
- American Sign Language (ASL) is a language used by some children who are deaf and their families. ASL consists of hand signs, body movements, and facial expressions. ASL has its own grammar and syntax, which are different from English, but it has no written form.
- Cued speech is a system that uses handshapes along with natural mouth movements to represent speech sounds. Watching the mouth movements and the handshapes can help some children learn to speech-read English; this is especially important in discriminating between sounds that look the same on the lips.
- Signed English is a system that uses signs to represent words or phrases in English. Signed English is designed to enhance the use of both spoken and written English.
- Combined options use portions of the various methods listed above. For example, some deaf children who use auditory-oral options also learn sign language. Children who use ASL also learn to read and write in English. Combined options can expose children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing to many different ways to communicate with others.
This video discusses some of the communication strategies used.
http://youtu.be/XcgIbrzbKW8
I remember before I knew anything about sign language, I used to think that what you described as signed English, was actually sign language. I think I have gotten better at knowing the difference between the two. These definitions are really helpful to me because the more you post, the more I learn about sign language and become interested in learning to sign myself.
ReplyDeleteI would recommend to EVERYONE to learn sign language. It is so enriching and beautiful. I have had the opportunity to sign to patients at my job as a pharmacy technician and it is very rewarding. I also have been given the opportunity to sign a song at church, not going to lie, very nervous. I'll let you know how it goes, I am performing it in a couple weeks.
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