sign language
Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
any means of communication, as between speakers of different languages, using gestures.
Origin of sign language
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Save over $200 on this expert-led training on American Sign Language | Stack Commerce | September 30, 2021 | Popular-ScienceInstead, she brought her client and a sign language interpreter to the hiring site and persuaded representatives there to interview him in person.
Disability rights advocates are worried about discrimination in AI hiring tools | Sheridan Wall, Hilke Schellmann | July 21, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewFor the hard-of-hearing, the absence of in-person meetings and conversations has been felt perhaps even more keenly as they’ve struggled to lip read, use sign language, access interpreters in time for video meetings.
‘Second-class citizens:’ Hard-of-hearing employees frustrated by lack of accessibility in remote and hybrid working | Jessica Davies | July 14, 2021 | DigidayMadou, who is deaf, expressed concerns over the prospect of going to court during a pandemic, and she also said that she was unsure whether the court would provide her with a sign language interpreter.
The Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped This School District From Suing Parents Over Unpaid Textbook Fees | by Ellis Simani, ProPublica, and Kim Kilbride, South Bend Tribune | December 12, 2020 | ProPublicaHer mom and dad have to translate what she says when there isn’t someone else who speaks sign language.
Arizona Promised to Help People With Developmental Disabilities. But Some Had to Wait a Long Time. Some Did Not Get Help at All. | by Amy Silverman for Arizona Daily Star, with data analysis by Alex Devoid, Arizona Daily Star | November 5, 2020 | ProPublica
Hearing people used sign language even when there was no deaf person present.
The town developed a sign language that everyone in the town used, deaf or not.
And they definitely did not know sign language, at least not well.
The Most ‘WTF’ Oscar Moments Ever: Rob Lowe’s Duet with Snow White, Sacheen Littlefeather, and the Streaker | Kevin Fallon, Marlow Stern | February 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI'd teach some of my hearing friends sign language, which they picked up quickly.
This Is What It Is Like To Be Deaf From Birth | Quora Contributor | December 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSouth African sign language covers all of the country's 11 official languages.
Nelson Mandela Memorial Interpreter Was a Fake | The Telegraph | December 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSchool exercises in language composition are given with great success upon the basis of the sign-language.
It is only when the sign-language is abused that its merit as a means of instruction degenerates.
So Scouts will not find it hard to pick up the sign language; the motions represent the thing itself.
Pluck on the Long Trail | Edwin L. SabinI faltered with visions of my evenings spent in expressing myself in the sign language.
Wisconsin in Story and Song; | VariousAs Louis knew only four or five words of Dakota, communication had to be carried on principally in sign language.
South from Hudson Bay | E. C. [Ethel Claire] Brill
British Dictionary definitions for sign language
another word for signing
any system of communication by manual signs or gestures
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