Exclusion within the inclusion practices of learners with hearing impairment in inclusive schools: A systematic review by Salimini Mbazi, Patrick Ojok, Stackus Okwaput

“…In contrast, negative attitudes towards LwHI, use of exclusive instructional and assessment strategies, rigid curriculum, poor seating arrangement, and inadequate skills in sign language are the critical exclusion practices that hinder the inclusion of LwHI in inclusive schools. …”
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Misinterpretation of Psychiatric Illness in Deaf Patients: Two Case Reports by Ethan Anglemyer, Craig Crespi

“…The Deaf culture is unique in that spoken word is via sign language. What one person may see as mania or psychosis is actually a norm with Deaf individuals. …”
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An Intelligent Heuristic Manta-Ray Foraging Optimization and Adaptive Extreme Learning Machine for Hand Gesture Image Recognition by Seetharam Khetavath, Navalpur Chinnappan Sendhilkumar, Pandurangan Mukunthan, Selvaganesan Jana, Lakshmanan Malliga, Subburayalu Gopalakrishnan, Sankuru Ravi Chand, Yousef Farhaoui

“…The development of hand gesture recognition systems has gained more attention in recent days, due to its support of modern human-computer interfaces. Moreover, sign language recognition is mainly developed for enabling communication between deaf and dumb people. …”
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RF-AIRCGR: Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network-Based RFID Chinese Character Gesture Recognition Research by Yajun Zhang, Congcong Wang, Feng Li, Weiqian Yu, Yuankang Wang, Jingying Chen

“…Although Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is gaining popularity due to its advantages (non-invasive, low-cost, and lightweight), most existing research has only addressed the recognition of simple sign language gestures or body movements. There is still a significant gap in the recognition of fine-grained gestures. …”
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Two Portuguese Cochlear Implanted Dizygotic Twins: A Case Report by Joana Rita Chora, Helena Simões-Teixeira, Tiago Daniel Matos, Jorge Humberto Martins, Marisa Alves, Raquel Ferreira, Luís Silva, Carlos Ribeiro, Graça Fialho, Helena Caria

“…Both parents have severe/profound deafness, since childhood, and use sign language as primary mode of communication. Clinical and genetic characterization was performed, as well as the assessment of the auditory and oral (re)habilitation after CI, applying a battery of audiological, speech, and language tests. …”
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INTRODUZIONE ALLA LINGUA INGLESE FIN DALLA PRIMA INFANZIA: UN APPROCCIO BASATO SULL’USO “AMPLIFICATO” DEL CANALE VISIVO-GESTUALE by Erika Raniolo

“…Given the continuity between coverbal gestures and signs of sign languages, with particular reference to LIS (Italian Sign Language), the glottodidactic potential of combining the gesture/sign with the word in English, exploiting iconicity and embodied cognition, is taken into consideration. …”
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Impact of socio-demographic structure of the deaf people communities in prevalence of hereditary hearing loss by O. L. Posukh, M. S. Bady-Khoo, M. V. Zytsar, V. Yu. Mikhalskaia, S. A. Lashin, N. A. Barashkov, G. P. Romanov

“…The start for these events was the breakdown of the deep social isolation of deaf people, which occurred about 300 years ago in Europe, and later in the US, when special schools for the deaf with learning sign language as a common tool for communication were established (linguistic homogamy). …”
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Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI) Metode Convolutional Neural Network Sequential secara Real Time by Oky Dwi Nurhayati, Dania Eridani, Muhammad Hafiz Tsalavin

“…Hasil penelitian dengan metode CNN pada citra isyarat tangan memberikan akurasi sebesar 92%, presisi 91,96%, sensitivitas 91,9%, spesivisitas 91,96% dan f1 score 91,9%.   Abstract Sign language is usually used by deaf and speech impaired persons. …”
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Characteristics of suicide prevention apps: a content analysis of apps available in Canada and the UK by Lydia Sequeira, Gillian Strudwick, Karen Lascelles, Hwayeon Danielle Shin, Laura Bennett-Poynter, Samantha Groves, Jessica Kemp

“…One app had the option to increase app accessibility by offering content presented using sign language. Many apps allowed some form of personalisation by adding text content, however most did not facilitate further customisation such as the ability to upload photo and audio content. …”
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Frequencies and functions of vocalizations and gestures in the second year of life. by Megan M Burkhardt-Reed, Edina R Bene, D Kimbrough Oller

“…In contrast, words and signs, the primary semantic components of spoken and signed languages, are functionally flexible, making possible reference to abstractions that are not bound to any particular illocutionary force nor to the here and now.…”
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