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  2. Two-handed manual alphabets - Wikipedia

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    The receiver's hand is relaxed, with the palm open and fingers slightly apart. The signer uses their dominant hand like a pen to sign on the non-dominant hand of the receiver. As a beginner, you may squeeze the wrist of the receiver between words since you will spell haltingly. Once you can spell fluently, simply put a short pause between words.

  3. Deafness in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    The Society of the Deaf and Sign Language Users (SDSL) was founded in 2008 with the mission of advocating for sign language users in Bangladesh. [17] The SDSL aims for Bangla Sign Language users to receive the same access to information and resources as hearing people, and for all Deaf children to receive education in sign language.

  4. Hear Me (film) - Wikipedia

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    Yang Yang visits Tian-Kuo's family restaurant while he is running deliveries to pay him back in full for the lunchboxes he has been bringing her. Tian-Kuo's parents express approval of Yang Yang and acceptance of her deafness, claiming they are even willing to learn sign language, which encourages Tian-Kuo to pursue Yang Yang until he finds her ...

  5. ILY sign - Wikipedia

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    The sign is an informal expression of any of several positive feelings, ranging from general esteem to love, for the recipient of the sign.A similar-looking but unrelated variation in which the thumb is toward the palm appears in heavy metal music culture as a "horns" hand-sign (though the thumbs extended version is sometimes used) and in college football as a sign of support for various teams ...

  6. Tactile signing - Wikipedia

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    Tactile signing is a common means of communication used by people with deafblindness.It is based on a sign language or another system of manual communication. "Tactile signing" refers to the mode or medium, i.e. signing (using some form of signed language or code), using touch.

  7. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    When fingerspelling, the hand is at shoulder height; it does not bounce with each letter. A double letter within a word is signed in different ways, through a bounce of the hand, a slide of the hand, or repeating the sign of a letter. [4] Letters are signed at a constant speed; a pause functions as a word divider. The first letter may be held ...

  8. Deaf cinema - Wikipedia

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    "Deaf cinema" is a movement that dissociates from the "Cinema of the deaf". “The two are worlds apart" while the Cinema of the deaf is "a mainstream cinema in need of character types as grist for its mercantile mill", the Deaf Cinema is "an outsider cinema serving to nurture and develop a culture's self-image”.

  9. Protactile - Wikipedia

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    Protactile is a language used by deafblind people using tactile channels. Unlike other sign languages, which are heavily reliant on visual information, protactile is oriented towards touch and is practiced on the body.