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    recorded history‚ deaf people were treated as nothing more than animals. Aristotle believed that because deaf people did not speak the superior Greek language‚ they could not be civilized. Christianity perpetuated the inhumane treatment of deaf people because they were believed to be punished by God. In the 1500’s‚ Spanish monks‚ who used signs to communicate within their vows of silence‚ were employed to instruct the deaf sons of the Spanish nobility

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    Signs ‚Symblos and Gestures:  A sign is something we directly encounter‚ yet at the same time it refers to something else. Thunder is a sign of rain. A punch in the nose is a sign of anger. An arrow is a sign of whatever it points toward.  Symbols expand the notions of signs and signals. Symbols are characterized by rich meanings that are multiple‚ fluid‚ diverse‚ layered‚ complex‚ and frequently predicated on metaphorical associations that assert an analogy between things from

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    Unit 1 Health and Social Care

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    Developing effective communication in health and social care LO1 Understand effective communication and interpersonal interaction in health and social care contexts of communication forms of communication interpersonal interaction communication and language needs and preferences LO2 Understand factors that influence communication and interpersonal interaction in health and social care environments theories of communication environmental factors affecting communication barriers to communication 2 Developing

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    persuade someone to do something. • Message coded – individual thinks about how they are going to say what they are thinking and decides in what form the communication will be i.e spoken words or sign language. An individual puts it into this form. • Message sent – individual sends the message i.e speaking or sign what they want to communicate. • Message decoded – the other person has to interpret what has been communicated‚ this is known as decoding. • Message understood – if the message has been communicated

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    many things about languages‚ such as the nature of language and phonology. Plus‚ Dr. Azman has done a very great job in teaching us this subject. To make it short‚ we need to learn linguistics and languages because whatever else people do when they come together‚ whether they play or fight‚ they talk. NEW KNOWLEDGE GAINED As a result of this class‚ I learned that language is important in human’s life. Language is a system that uses some physical sign (sound‚ gesture‚

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    ASL Challenge Paper

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    ASL is more than a language; it is a miracle. I find myself often perplexed by the difficulty that must have come with making a language solely from hands. It is amazing that there was a nationwide speaking of the hands for the deaf community and anyone who is interested to learn can join in easily‚ but only if they can hoop over some of the languages major challenges. In the article “Why is Learning American Sign Language a Challenge?” by Professor Mike Kent‚ he discusses the top 5 ASL challenges

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    Introduction:- Nonverbal communication is the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless (mostly visual) cues between people. Messages can be communicated through gestures and touch‚ body language or posture‚ physical distance‚ facial expression and eye contact‚ which are all types of nonverbal communication. Speech contains nonverbal elements known as paralanguage‚ including voice quality‚ rate‚ pitch‚ volume‚ and speaking style‚ as well as prosodic features such as rhythm

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    important. Interest and understanding should be shown by you in body language‚ questions‚ answers and possible solutions. Any issues should be dealt with calmly in a non- threatening tone. Email is a common way to communicate on a professional level but care needs to be taken as to how you express certain conversations to ensure the wording is correct as conversations can be misinterpreted if emails are too blunt as body language cannot be appreciated here. Also the speed to which we reply to phone

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    “through sign language”. Monica‚ a Gallaudet college freshman‚ on the other hand‚ is an “oralist”‚ which tells people that she has learned “speech and lipreading” and that she used to be forbidden to communicate with others through sign language. Even though Mike and Monica are both deaf‚ they are very distinct from each other. In fact‚ Mike and Monica were lucky to have the opportunity to learn sign language because American Sign Language didn’t even existed in the past. American Sign Language

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    of training for adults in school E.g; sign language/Makaton training. The benefit to the child is that they can find ways to communicate in school-either by speaking or signs‚ or using communication aids. This may help them interact with their peers and also communicate with the teacher-they are able to express their needs. The child’s understanding of work they are asked to do may also improve-if the work is differentiated to their level and the language used is appropiate.E.g instructions kept

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