Braille Sign Language

Are there any good suggestions for some good books on learning braille and sign language? Preferrably ones I can get at the library.

For Braille go to www.braillesuperstore.com

They are amazing and they have a Braille for Sighted program that works well. I learned Braille Level I in less than three months. I know it well enough to read advanced text.

2007-06-16 22:54:19 by brideofsatan_1

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I'm learning German so I wanted to know if there' s a language that you want to learn.

I'm learning German too, and I've put off Swedish to focus on my fluency. So after that, I'll start again with Swedish :D

2008-11-05 13:18:31 by Mike S

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Blind people can talk, so communication isn't really impaired for them. Before Braille was invented there were some versions of raised lettering that were used to allow blind people to learn to read and write.

As for the deaf, sign languages develop in much the same way as spoken languages, rather than being "implemented". People in a community invent them to be able to communicate. Many families with deaf children invent their own "home signs" to facilitate communication.

American Sign Language as it's used today developed from an indigenous sign language used on Martha's Vineyard, where there was a great deal of hereditary deafness, and from French Sign Language, brought from Europe by Laurent Clerc and Thomas Gallaudet, who established the American School for the Deaf in Hartford CT.

If you're refering to deafblind people, until the last 150 years or so, they really had very few options when it came to communication. Most deafblind children at that time were institutionalized and given up as hopeless causes.

2006-09-17 20:32:48 by sassiest_princess

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Well sign language is a language... and braille is a way to write a language, basically.

One has its own vocabulary, sets of grammatical rules, and culture associated with it... and the other has like 36 dot formations to memorize. Yeah, you'll need to practice them to be able to read braille quickly, but Braille isn't a language. Sign language IS. It's a lot more complex.

You basically just asked is it easier to write down something you already know, or learn German?

2009-04-11 14:37:36 by Dumbbell Nebula™

I couldn't decide whether to put this in Languages or Cultures... or is there a better category?

My family hasn't learned Braille. There's no reason for them to, they can read regularly, I read braille. Unless they are interested in braille there's no point in them learning it.

2009-05-13 20:54:33 by blitzcrackunders