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Title: Spanish Deaf


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Spanish Deaf
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History of Sign Language
  • Spain home to systemization of Deaf education
  • monastic communities - teach monks how to
    fingerspell to keep silence during meals
  • 16th-19th centuries private tutors begin to
    teach deaf how to lip-read and fingerspell
    oralism takes over

3
Fathers of Sign
  • De Yebra 1st Spaniard to create communication
    method for deaf fingerspelling resembles 20th
    century ASL alphabet
  • Ponce de Leon Father of Deaf Education
  • Bonet 1620 Method of Teaching Deaf-Mutes to
    speak (oralism communicated with Deaf in sign
    but wanted them to be able to speak to all)

4
Language in Spain Today
  • 4 distinct geographic areas in Spain
  • 13 sign languages total spoken 2 of them are
    sign languages
  • Intercommunication is possible between the two
    sign languages only 50 of Catalonian Sign is
    understood by other Spanish signers (gestures
    help)

5
Spanish Sign Language
  • SSP spoken in the majority of the Iberian country
  • The most intelligible of the two
  • 102,000 users
  • Mixture of American, French, and Mexican Sign
    Languages
  • la lengua de los sordos
  • la lengua de signos
  • mimica

6
Catalonian Sign Language
  • CSC
  • 18,000 users
  • Used in Catalan northeastern region of Spain
    near Barcelona

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Deaf in Spain Today
  • Helen Keller National Center Deaf-blind
    dictionary in Spanish and English
  • National committee promotes interpreting services
    and organizations as well as community classes
    for others to learn
  • Mouthing th is used/demonstrated just as in
    Spanish
  • Gallaudet University study 20,000 members of
    Deaf associations Federation Deaf of Catalonia
    (1999)
  • Zapatero new president acknowledged Deaf and
    interpreters in inaugural speech and later
    learned how to fingerspell his name interested
    in needs/desires/interests of Deaf

8
Spanish Deaf Today
  • Capital S in Sordo just like US
  • Beginning to overcome previous struggles
    economically and in reference to jobs
  • Trilingualism is big! Some learn Spanish (oral)
    or SSP first and then another in school like
    English, German, or French (read and write)
    boosts self-esteem and helps with job search
  • Gay and minority groups of Deaf just like US
  • Protests March 8, 2004 womens Deaf group
    protests about equal rights and pay in workplace
  • Conferences The Future of Our Hands

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Young Spanish Deaf Group
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Bibliography
  • http//clk.about.com/?zi1/XJsdndeafnesszuhttp
    3A2F2Fwww.cervantesvirtual.com2Fportal2Fsigno
    s2F
  • http//www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6806.html
  • http//www.deafed.net/PublishedDocs/sub/97b524.htm
  • http//www.ethnologue.com/
  • http//www.cnse.es/
  • http//www.implantecoclear.org/
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