Compare and Contrast American Sign Language and Signing English Systems

question 48

Essay

Compare and contrast American Sign Language and signing English systems: As communication systems,what features do they share? What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of each for students with deafness?

---

Definitions:

Depress Scapulae

The action of lowering the shoulder blades, an essential movement in various physical activities and exercises.

Medially Rotate

The action of rotating a limb or another body part toward the central axis of the body.

Eversion

The movement of turning the sole of the foot outward or away from the midline of the body.

Inversion

In genetics, inversion refers to the reversal of the orientation of a segment of a chromosome. In physics, it can relate to operations that reverse the sign of some physical quantity or spatial coordinates.