(n.) The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.
Example Sentences:
Fingerspelling
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The communication conditions involved individual and combined presentations of lipreading, listening, fingerspelling, and signed English.
(2) Although maximal rates of natural manual production of fingerspelling correspond to the presentation of a new handshape on the order of once every 150-20 ms, the data from the sped-up visual study suggest that experienced receivers of visual fingerspelling are able to receive sentences at substantially higher rates of fingerspelling (which are, in fact, comparable to communication rates for spoken English).
(3) For both visual and tactual reception of fingerspelled sentences, accuracy of reception was examined as a function of rate of presentation.
(4) The purpose of the current study was to examine the ability of experienced deaf-blind subjects to receive fingerspelled materials, including sentences and connected text, through the tactual sense.
(5) A method of communication in frequent use among members of the deaf-blind community is the tactual reception of fingerspelling.
(6) Fingerspelling has not previously been reported in hypnosis of the deaf.
(7) The speech and language training for deaf children at our clinic is performed using a multisensory method, which consists of reception and expression training for sign language and fingerspelling as well as auditory training, lip reading, and written language training (the Kanazawa Method).
(8) These results suggest that normal communication rates for the visual reception of fingerspelling are restricted by limitations on the rate of manual production.
(9) A hypnotic trance was induced by instructing the patient in muscle relaxation, modeling relaxation with exhalation, and having the patient focus her gaze on the hypnotist repeatedly fingerspelling R-E-L-A-X.
(10) In the present investigation, we analyzed the acquisition of comprehensible and expressive vocabulary in sign language and fingerspelling.
(11) What seemed to contribute most to successful SC were clear lip movement, fingerspelled support for potentially ambiguous signs, eye contact, communication of mood and attitude, modality match, and grammatical facial expression.
(12) A parallel study of the reception of fingerspelling through the visual sense was also conducted using sighted deaf subjects.
(13) In the visual study, rates in excess of those that can be produced naturally were achieved through variable-speed playback of videotapes of fingerspelled sentences.