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  2. First British Sign Language channel launches on ITVX ... - AOL

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    The first British Sign Language (BSL) channel globally has been launched on ITVX, the broadcaster said. ITV’s new streaming platform will host a station that only has signed programming and be ...

  3. British Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. While private correspondence from William Stokoe hinted at a formal name for the language in 1960, [ 3 ] the first usage of the term "British Sign Language" in an academic publication was likely by ...

  4. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    For these signs there are three-way correspondences between a form, a concrete source and an abstract target meaning. The ASL sign LEARN has this three-way correspondence. The abstract target meaning is "learning". The concrete source is putting objects into the head from books. The form is a grasping hand moving from an open palm to the forehead.

  5. BANZSL - Wikipedia

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    BSL (sign attested from 1644 may not be BSL), with approximately 151,000 users [4] Australian SL (1860. ASL and ISL influences), with approximately 10 000 users [5] Papua New Guinea Sign Language (c. 1990), which is a creole formed with Auslan, used by 30,000 people [6] New Zealand SL (1800s), used by approximately 20,000 people [7]

  6. Language acquisition by deaf children - Wikipedia

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    Deaf signing children learn to adjust their eye gaze to look back and forth between the object and the caregiver's signing. [45] To reduce the child's need for divided attention between an object and the caregiver's signing, a caregiver can position themselves and objects within the child's visual field so that language and the object can be ...

  7. The Silent Child - Wikipedia

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    The Silent Child is a British sign language short film written by and starring Rachel Shenton and directed by her own husband Chris Overton, and released in 2017 by Slick Films. [1] It tells the story of Libby, a profoundly deaf six-year-old girl, who lives a silent life until a social worker, played by Shenton, teaches her how to communicate ...