When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: finger spelling chart bsl reading comprehension grade 1 free worksheets

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Fingerspelling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspelling

    In Italian Sign Language fingerspelled words are produced relatively slowly and clearly, whereas fingerspelling in standard British Sign Language (BSL) is often rapid so that the individual letters become difficult to distinguish and the word is grasped from the overall hand movement. Most of the letters of the BSL alphabet are produced with ...

  3. Two-handed manual alphabets - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-handed_manual_alphabets

    AEIOU are the pads of each finger, beginning with the thumb. A BANZSL "A" is signed on the tip of the thumb B The fingers and thumb are held together to form half of the BANZSL "B" and placed on the palm C Draw your finger along the edge of the thumb and up the index finger, alternatively the direction of the sweep can be reversed D

  4. Initialized sign - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialized_sign

    In sign language, an initialized sign is one that is produced with a handshape(s) that corresponds to the fingerspelling of its equivalent in the locally dominant oral language, based on the respective manual alphabet representing that oral language's orthography.

  5. British Sign Language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Sign_Language

    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 ...

  6. Sign language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language

    The interpretation flow is normally between a sign language and a spoken language that are customarily used in the same country, such as French Sign Language (LSF) and spoken French in France, Spanish Sign Language (LSE) to spoken Spanish in Spain, British Sign Language (BSL) and spoken English in the U.K., and American Sign Language (ASL) and ...

  7. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_manual_alphabet

    Studies have shown that deaf individuals process reading and fingerspelling similarly. As a result, fingerspelling has had a profound impact on the literacy of deaf and hard of hearing children. This conclusion is widely accepted, but the debate lies in which methods of teaching best utilize this relationship.