"Sign Language" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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A system of hand gestures used for communication by the deaf or by people speaking different languages.
| Descriptor ID |
D012813
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.169.063.500.200.609.668 E02.831.200.609.668 F01.145.209.530.702.668 L01.143.649.526.668
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| Concept/Terms |
Sign Language- Sign Language
- Language, Sign
- Languages, Sign
- Sign Languages
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sign Language" by people in Profiles.
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Anderson ML, Riker T, Gagne K, Hakulin S, Higgins T, Meehan J, Stout E, Pici-D'Ottavio E, Cappetta K, Wolf Craig KS. Deaf Qualitative Health Research: Leveraging Technology to Conduct Linguistically and Sociopolitically Appropriate Methods of Inquiry. Qual Health Res. 2018 09; 28(11):1813-1824.
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Anderson ML, Wolf Craig KS, Ziedonis DM. Deaf people's help-seeking following trauma: Experiences with and recommendations for the Massachusetts behavioral health care system. Psychol Trauma. 2017 03; 9(2):239-248.
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Mitchell TV. Category selectivity of the N170 and the role of expertise in deaf signers. Hear Res. 2017 01; 343:150-161.
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Shuler GK, Mistler LA, Torrey K, Depukat R. More than signing: communicating with the deaf. Nurs Manage. 2014 Mar; 45(3):20-7; quiz 27-8.
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Mitchell TV, Letourneau SM, Maslin MC. Behavioral and neural evidence of increased attention to the bottom half of the face in deaf signers. Restor Neurol Neurosci. 2013; 31(2):125-39.
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Letourneau SM, Mitchell TV. Gaze patterns during identity and emotion judgments in hearing adults and deaf users of American Sign Language. Perception. 2011; 40(5):563-75.
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Allen TE, Anderson ML. Deaf students and their classroom communication: an evaluation of higher order categorical interactions among school and background characteristics. J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2010; 15(4):334-47.
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Myers C, Clark MD, Musyoka MM, Anderson ML, Gilbert GL, Agyen S, Hauser PC. Black deaf individuals' reading skills: influence of ASL, culture, family characteristics, reading experience, and education. Am Ann Deaf. 2010; 155(4):449-57.
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Stromer R, Mackay HA, Howell SR, McVay AA, Flusser D. Teaching computer-based spelling to individuals with developmental and hearing disabilities: transfer of stimulus control to writing tasks. J Appl Behav Anal. 1996; 29(1):25-42.