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  2. Amber Galloway - Wikipedia

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    Amber Galloway [1] (born 12 March 1977) [2] is a sign language interpreter specializing in the interpretation of concerts and music festivals, especially rap/hip-hop, into American Sign Language (ASL). She has been described as "..the most recognizable sign language interpreter in the [United States]."

  3. Auditory verbal agnosia - Wikipedia

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    Auditory verbal agnosia (AVA), also known as pure word deafness, is the inability to comprehend speech.Individuals with this disorder lose the ability to understand language, repeat words, and write from dictation.

  4. Deaf culture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Instead, Deaf culture uses Deaf-first language: Deaf person or hard-of-hearing person. [10] Capital D-Deaf is as stated prior, is referred to as a student who first identifies as that. Lower case d-deaf is where a person has hearing loss: typically, those that consider themselves deaf, first and foremost prior to any other identity.

  5. Manually coded language - Wikipedia

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    The use of MCLs is controversial and has been opposed since Épée's time by "oralists" who believe Deaf people should speak, lipread and use hearing aids rather than sign—and on the other side by members of the American Sign Language (ASL) community (see Deaf culture) who resist a wide or exclusive application of MCLs for both philosophical and practical reasons.

  6. Supreme Court rules for deaf student in education case - AOL

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday for a a deaf student who sued his public school system for providing an inadequate education. The case is significant for other ...

  7. Expressive aphasia - Wikipedia

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    In deaf patients who use manual language (such as American Sign Language), damage to the left hemisphere of the brain leads to disruptions in their signing ability. [1] Paraphasic errors similar to spoken language have been observed; whereas in spoken language a phonemic substitution would occur (e.g. "tagle" instead of "table"), in ASL case ...

  8. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language [5] that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features . [ 6 ]

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