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How do people use sign languages in different situations around the world? How are sign languages distributed globally? What happens when they come in contact with spoken and written languages? These and other questions are explored in this new introduction to the sociolinguistics of sign languages and deaf communities. An international team brings insights and data from a wide range of sign languages, from the USA, Canada, England, Spain, Brazil and Australia. Topics covered include multilingualism in the global deaf community, sociolinguistic variation and change in sign languages, bilingualism and language contact between signed and spoken languages, attitudes towards sign languages, sign language planning and policy, and sign language discourse. Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities will be welcomed by students of sign language and interpreting, teachers of sign language, and students and academics working in linguistics.

Sociolinguistics --- Sign language --- Sign language. --- Deaf --- Sociolinguistics. --- Means of communication.

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Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Volume 1 outlines the research underpinning and informing the project, and places the Simplified Sign System in a wider context of sign usage, historically and by different populations. Volume 2 presents the lexicon of signs, totalling approximately 1000 signs, each with a clear illustration and a written description of how the sign is formed, as well as a memory aid that connects the sign visually to the meaning that it conveys. While the Simplified Sign System originally was developed to meet the needs of persons with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism, or aphasia, it may also assist the communication needs of a wider audience - such as healthcare professionals, aid workers, military personnel , travellers or parents, and children who have not yet mastered spoken language. The system also has been shown to enhance learning for individuals studying a foreign language. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike.

Children with disabilities. --- Deaf --- Means of communication. --- Deaf people

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Deaf children --- Hard of hearing children --- Parents of deaf children --- Means of communication --- Means of communication --- Decision making.

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-Deaf-mutes --- Deaf --- Gesture language --- Speech-reading --- Speechreading --- Communication --- Education of the deaf --- Education --- Means of communication --- Speech --- Sourds --- Moyens de communication --- Deaf - Education --- Deaf - Means of communication --- Deaf people --- Education. --- Means of communication.

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Deaf children --- Sign language --- Education, Bilingual. --- Language. --- Means of communication. --- Study and teaching. --- Deaf children - Language. --- Deaf children - Means of communication. --- Sign language - Study and teaching.