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22Jan
Who are CODA’S ?

A CODA or Child of a Deaf Adult

A child born to or raised by a deaf parent (or both parents).Up to 90% of children born to deaf parents are hearing. Although hearing, they are members of the Deaf community from birth and their first language is often Sign Language.

However, their identity and contribution as Deaf community members are frequently overlooked by the rest of society. Too often, this results in challenges for both CODAs and their Deaf parents.

There is a lot of research and programmes to help hearing parents raise and educate their Deaf children, but there appears to be very little research or support for Deaf parents who have hearing children, as well as the hearing children themselves.

Self Introduction in Indian Sign Language

CODAs and their Deaf parents typically share a sign language (whether formal Sign Language or other forms of sign language) as well as a cultural experience. Codas are liaisons between their deaf parents and the hearing world in which they live, navigating the border between the deaf and hearing worlds.

22Jan
WHAT IS HOME SIGN ?

Home Sign

If gesture is the most rudimentary form of manual communication, then home sign is somewhere in between gesture and full-fledged sign language. Home sign develops, mostly at the level of the family, when a deaf person grows up in isolation from a deaf community. This usually happens in villages because the deaf people there are isolated from the sign language communities in the town and cities.

Week Days In Indian Sign Language
22Jan
WHAT IS PIDGIN SIGN LANGUAGE ?

Pidgin Sign Language

When deaf signers with some knowledge of spoken language structures and hearing people with some knowledge of sign language try to communicate, the result is often a form of Contact Signing or Pidgin Sign Language. Since this form of signing is influenced by both the primary sign language and the spoken language, which typically have very different grammars.

Many hearing people in India who communicate with deaf people regularly are convinced that they sign very well and that they are using Indian Sign Language when in fact they are using Pidgin Sign Language.

Numbers in Indian Sign Language
22Jan
WHAT IS SIGN LANGUAGE ?

Sign language

It is a method of communicating that relies on hand gestures and movements, body language, and facial expressions rather than spoken words. Sign languages are prominently use by Deaf and Hard of Hearing people.

Sign Languages are natural human languages that have developed wherever deaf people have come together to form communities. Sign Languages are fully complex human languages that are on a par with spoken languages at every level of linguistic organization means they have their own grammar and lexicon like spoken language.

In Sign Language, fingerspelling is extremely important. A particular sign is there for each letter of the alphabet.

On your hand, you can use these letter signs to spell out words – most commonly names and places – and sentences. If you don’t know or can’t remember some signs, fingerspelling is a simple way to communicate.