DIVISION TRAINING OF SCHOOL HEADS

AND REGULAR /
RECEIVING TEACHERS ON SIGN
LANGUAGE

BOLANEY TRAINING CENTER

BOLANEY ,ALAMINOS CITY
February 7-9,2019
 INTRODUCTION AND
RATIONALE of SIGN
LANGUAGE for FILIPINO
LEARNERS

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THE NATURE OF CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT (CHI)

Children with hearing impairment have

often been referred to as either deaf or
hard-of-hearing.
Deaf children are those whose hearing is
non-functional for the ordinary purposes
in life. They do not have sufficient residual
hearing to enable them to understand
speech successfully without special
instruction.
Hard-of-hearing children have hearing
impairments mild enough for them to learn
without great difficulty to communicate by speech
and hearing. They are those whose hearing is
functional with or without the use of hearing aids.
Children with hearing disabilities/difficulty
(Dunn, 1973) are those who are deaf and
hard-of-hearing.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act)IDEA (then called the Education of all
Handicapped Students Act or Public Law (PL)
94-142) includes

“hearing impairment” and “deafness” as two

of the categories under which children with
disabilities / difficulty may be eligible for
special education and related service
programming.
HISTORY OF SIGN LANGUAGE
 The recorded history of sign language in
Western societies starts in the 17th century, as
a visual language or method of communication.
 Sign language is composed of a system of
conventional gestures, mimic, hand signs and
finger spelling, plus the use of hand positions to
represent the letters of the alphabet.
 Signs can also represent complete ideas or
phrases, not only individual words.
 Most sign languages are natural languages,
different in construction from oral languages used
in proximity to them, and are employed mainly
by deaf people in order to communicate.
 20TH CENTURY – PHILIPPINES (1907)
The Sign Language in the Philippines has its roots in the
American Sign Language.
 Dr. David Barrows, then Director of Education in the
Philippines, saw the need to establish a school for the
handicapped.

 Miss Delia Delight Rice, an American Thomasite

teacher born to deaf parents, naturally brought with her
Amslan (American Sign Language). She was
commissioned to organize the School for the Deaf and
Blind (now, the Philippine School for the Deaf)
became the school principal for 16 years.
 In the 1960s, contact with American Sign
Language continued through the launching of the
Deaf Evangelistic Alliance Foundation and the
Laguna Christian College for the Deaf.

 Another source of ASL influence was the

assignment of volunteers from the United
States Peace Corps, who were stationed at various
places in the Philippines from 1974 through 1989,
as well as religious organizations that promoted
ASL and Manually Coded English.
 Starting in 1982, the International Deaf
Education Association (IDEA), led by
former Peace Corps volunteer G. Dennis
Drake, established a series of residential
elementary programs in Bohol using
Philippine Sign Language as the primary
language of instruction.
 The Bohol Deaf Academy also primarily
emphasizes Philippine Sign Language.
 SIGN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Sign language is the transmission and

reception of communication and ideas
through the manual and visual modalities,
i.e., through the use of the hands and the
eyes.
SIGN SYSTEM IN USE:
• Fingerspelling/ Manual Alphabet
• Language of signs:
- Signing Exact English,
- Signing Essential English,
- American Sign Language (ASL),
- Filipino Sign Language
MANUAL ALPHABET
How many?
WHAT NUMBER IS THIS?
1 9
3 6
8 4
5 10
2 7
LET’S READ

four seven five

ten eight

nine one three

six two
Let’s count
Ten Little Indians
 Ten Little Indians

One little, two little, three little Indians.

Four little, five little, six little Indians.
Seven little, eight little, nine little
Indians.
Ten little Indian boys.
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 WELCOME TO THE FAMILY
I. Welcome to the Family
We’re glad that you have come
To share your life with us, as we grow in love
May we always be to you
What God would have us be
A family always there to be strong and to lead on

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May we learn to love each other more with each
new day
May words of love be on our lips in everything
we say
May the spirit melt our heart and teach us how
to pray
That we might be a true family
Repeat I
Repeat Chorus

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SPED-DEAF-LIFE-LIVE

“Serve with patience and with

enthusiasm the
Deaf
to develop and encourage
him/her attain fulfillment in Life.
A life full of initiative and encouragement
to live interestingly with vigor
in his/her environment.”
LET’S MAKE A DIFFERENCE
IN THE LIVES OF OUR
CHILDREN/ADULTS WITH
HEARING IMPAIRMENT.

LET’S DO IT WITH L VE

Thank you for listening.

GERLY A. MAMARIL
SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER