Archive for March 27th, 2009

Manipulative Visual Language Tested in Scotland

Friday, March 27th, 2009

A Glasgow-based charity, Deaf Connections, is Europe’s first organisation to pilot a new way of teaching English to deaf people as a second language. The manipulative visual language (MVL) system, devised a decade ago at Gallaudet University, uses wooden blocks to depict grammar components. Indigenous sign languages like the Irish and British sign languages have different grammar ...