Abstract:
More than 5% of the world's population - 360 million people - disability of hearing loss (328
million adults and 32 million children). Disabling hearing loss associated with the loss of
more than 40 decibels (dB) at the best listening ear in adults and more than 30 dB at the best
listening ear in children. Most people with a hearing loss live in low- and middle-income
countries.
About one third of people over the age of 65 suffer from hearing loss. The prevalence in this
age group is the highest in South Asia, Asia-Pacific and Africa (sub- Saharan).
These hearing impaired people use sign language as the way of communicating with others.
Sign language is a way of using your hands to make certain shapes to represent the words
and characters. There as many sign languages i.e. ASL (American Sign Language).
American Sign Language (ASL) is a language itself. Although English andUrdu are spoken
languages. ASL is a visual language.People communicate using hand shape, direction and
movement of the arms, body language and facial expressions. ASL has its own grammar,
word order and sentence structure. People can share their feelings, jokes, and full of ideas
using ASL justlike using any another language. People can take lessons in ASL and start
training your child, even while they are still studying it. A child can learn ASL as their first
language. In addition, ASL specialists can work with families to help them learn
ASL.Children can use many other skills with ASL. Finger spelling is used to spell words that
do not have symptoms - such as names of people and places
