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

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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)

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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)

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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

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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

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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
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• 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/