Communication with Deaf & Hard of Hearing People

There are a variety of communication methods used with and by Deaf and Hard of Hearing people, and different schools of thought regarding various approaches of communication.

Native Sign Languages

For example:

• Auslan|Australian Sign Language (Auslan)
• ASL|American Sign Language (ASL)
• BSL|British Sign Language (BSL)
• LSQ|Linguistics Sign Quebec (LSQ)
• JSL|Japanese Sign Language (JSL) and so on.

Manual Codes for spoken languages^?, such as:

Signed Exact English^?

Signed English/Australasian Signed English^?

Cued Speech – a phonetic cued system showing all the vowels and consonants of the spoken language in a visual one handed cued shapes

Oral Methods^? which rely on auditory training, such as:

Auditory-Verbal Method^?

Lipreading,also^? known as Speech Reading

Speaking using voice

Total Communication^?

Bi-lingualism^? - the use of a native sign language, such as Auslan with written English schools such as Toowong State School, Brisbane, Australia (http://www.toowongss.eq.edu.au) and the Robert Reid Centre, Sydney use the bi-lingual program

Ecletic Approaches^?

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