Manualism

This article is about sign language. For hand music, see Manualism (hand music).

Manualism is a method of education of deaf students using sign language within the classroom.^[1]

History

While working at Gallaudet University in the 1970s, William Stokoe felt that American Sign Language was a language in its own right; with its own independent syntax and grammar. Stokoe classified the language into five parts which included: handshapes, orientation, location, movement, and facial expression, in which much of the meaning of the sign is clarified as well as the grammar of the sentence expressed.^[2] Some sign languages, such as American Sign Language, have been promoted as the traditional way of communication for deaf people.^[3] Manualism is combined with oralism as the contemporary technique for the education of deaf students.^[4]

References

1. ^ Douglas C. Baynton. Forbidden signs: American culture and the campaign against sign language. University of Chicago Press, 1996. p. 4. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CURQquUqiGwC&pg=PA4&dq=%22manualism%22+-+the+use+of+sign+language+in+the+class&hl=en&ei=Pe6DTbTCOciHhQfVkrG9BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22manualism%22%20-%20the%20use%20of%20sign%20language%20in%20the%20class&f=false. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
2. ^ Bauman, H-Dirksen, ed. Open Your Eyes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 15.
3. ^ H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelso. Signing the body poetic: essays on American Sign Language literature. University of California Press, 2006. p. 242. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c7dosbsKKosC&pg=PA242&dq=Manualism+sign+language+be+considered+as+more+natural&hl=en&ei=g_CDTZH3A9GLhQeMzt3BBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Manualism%20sign%20language%20be%20considered%20as%20more%20natural&f=false. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
4. ^ J. Madhubala. Adjustment Problems of Hearing Impaired. Discovery Publishing House, 2004. p. 11. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HZXfG7pQaNMC&pg=PA11&dq=Manualism+is+the+technique+and+education+for+the+deaf+students+that+is+mostly+in+use+today&hl=en&ei=Su-DTf75EcOLhQfkqYzBBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 

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