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school for deaf people in Iraq
Deaf and hard-of-hearing students participating in a lesson at a school for deaf...
SSG JoAnn S. Makinano—USAF/U.S. Department of Defense
American Sign Language
Deaf or hard-of-hearing people conversing in American Sign Language (ASL).
David Fulmer (daveynin)
Charles-Michel, abbé de l'Epée
Charles-Michel, abbé de l'Epée, inventor of the manual alphabet (finger spelling),...
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The alphabet and the numbers 0–10 in Amer. Sign Language.
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