Online Book Launch: 'Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Population'.

Описание: Online book launch of Open Book Publishers' new Open Access title 'Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Population', written by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley and Filip T. Loncke.

The panelists presenting are:

William B. Bonvillian: Lecturer at MIT and Senior Director, MIT Open Learning. He will be representing his brother, the late John D. Bonvillian, the principle author of this book.

Nicole Kissane Lee: M.D., Ed.M.: Assistant Professor of Surgery and the Director of the Indiana University Surgical Skills Center and Co-Director of the Indiana University Surgical Education Research Fellowship.

Filip T. Loncke: professor at the Curry School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia.


'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.


You can now freely download & read Volume 1 at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/pr... and Volume 2 at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/pr...


You can access a transcript of the Online Book Launch of Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations at https://tinyurl.com/y32fpgta.