Philippines
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- | Philippine Federation of the Deaf ([http://www.wfdeaf.org/ WFD ]member; established in 1997. (WFD. 2008. ''Global Survey Report.'' : See [[#Bibliography|Bibliography]] below.)) | + | [http://b.1asphost.com/philfeddeaf/home1.htm Philippine Federation of the Deaf] ([http://www.wfdeaf.org/ WFD ]member; established in 1997. (WFD. 2008. ''Global Survey Report.'' : See [[#Bibliography|Bibliography]] below.)) |
Revision as of 14:53, 13 July 2011
Name of the country/area | Philippines |
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Formal name of the country/area | Republic of the Philippines |
Country/area information | The World Factbook (CIA) |
Wikipedia (English) |
Indigenous signs for "Philippines"
Movies
Sign of country name "Philippines" (Data offered by Deaf informants in Philippines; movie made by Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies)
Illustrations in the literature
"Philippines" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 19.)
Spoken languages
Filipino
English
Sign languages
Related sign languages:
Population of Deaf/deaf people
- 100,000 deaf persons in Philippines (Van Cleve 1986 :Ethnologue, 16th Edition).
- The National Government’s official number of Deaf people : 121,000. Philippine Federation of the Deaf’s official or approximate number of Sign Language Users: 975. (WFD. 2008. Global Survey Report. : See Bibliography below.)
Legal status of sign languages
Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf
Philippine Federation of the Deaf (WFD member; established in 1997. (WFD. 2008. Global Survey Report. : See Bibliography below.))
Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies
MCCID College of Technology Official Website
Education for the deaf
Deaf communities and cultures
Religious activities by the Deaf
Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages
Sign language dictionaries
MacFadden, Jane. 1977. Sign as you speak. Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines: Southeast Asian Institute for the Deaf.
Bibliography
World Federation of the Deaf and Swedish National Association of the Deaf. 2008. Global Survey Report. WFD Regional Secretariat for Asia and the Pacific (WFD RSA/P). Global Education Pre-Planning Project on the Human Rights of Deaf People. World Federation of the Deaf. Finland.
De Guzman, Maria Tanya L. 2007. Mental Health Services in the Philippines: A Deaf Perspective In : Goodstein, Harvey ed. The Deaf Way II Reader : Perspectives from the Second International Conference on Deaf Culture. Washington,DC: Gallaudet University Press. 166-171.
Philippine Federation of the Deaf. 2007. Status Report on the use of sign language in the Philippines. PFD(Philippine Federation of the Deaf) unpublished report.
Abat, Rafaelito M. and Liza B. Martinez. 2006. The history of sign language in the Philippines : piecing together the puzzle.9th Philippine Linguistics Congress (25-27January 2006). Organized by the Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines.
Philippine Federation of the Deaf. 2005. A compilation of signs from regions of the Philippines. Part 1. Quezon City: LFS Printing Services, Inc.
Benitez-dela Torre, Theresa Christine, James DeCaro and Bill Clymer. 2005. Higher education for Deaf students in the Philippines today: The role of De LaSalle-College of Saint Benilde, the Deaf community, and PEN-International. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 56(2005.06) :22-32.(translated by Japanese Federation of the Deaf, in Japanese)
Mori, Soya. 2005. The dawn of the Philippine Deaf community : The early years of deaf education for the Deaf in the Philippines. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 56(2005.06) :12-21.
Martinez, Liza B. PhD. 2005. Filipino sign Language: Understanding the past and looking to the future. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 56(2005.06) :2-11.
Osugi, Yutaka. 2005. About this issue(Foreword): The movements of Deaf people and their community in Philippine. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 56(2005.06) :1.
Philippine Deaf Resource Center and Philippine Federation of the Deaf. 2004. An Introduction to Filipino Sign Language. Quezon City: Studio Graphics.
Osugi, Yutaka. 2004. The ongoing project on "Practical dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages". In: Sign Language Communication Studies. (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 53(2004.09):12-20. [Including information of Asia (general), Cambodia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam ]
Nakayama, Sinichiro. 2004. Make a Comparison of Word Order between Sign Language and Language for writing : From study about sign language used in Asia and Africa. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 52(2004.06):22-26. [Including information of [ Ghana, Zambia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand ]
Project for Publication of "Introduction to Filipino Sign Language- Embassy of Japan in the Philippines News Archive 2003.
Kobayashi, Masayuki. 1999. Deaf in Asia(3) : The Philippines. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 31(1999.03) :81-84.
Martinez, Liza.B. 1995. Turn-taking and eye gaze in sign conversations between Deaf Filipinos. In: Ceil Lucas ed., Sociolinguistics in deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. :272-306.
Martinez, Liza.B. 1995. Filipino Sign Language: may kaugnauyan at kabuluhan ba sa Deaf education? Tan Chi King Professorial Chair Lecture. De La Salle University.
Martinez, Liza.B. 1994. A linguistic study of some aspects of Pilipino Sign Language in Manila and Cebu. Unpublished manuscript. Department of Linguistics and Interpreting. Gallaudet University. Washington D.C.
Martinez, Liza B. 1993. Eye-gaze as an element in Filipino Sign Language discourse. In: Winston, Elisabeth A. ed. Communication forum volume 2. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University, School of Communication. 99-112.
Saulo, Ligaya Gamez. (1990?). Say it with signs: a sign language handbook for Filipinos. Philippine Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.
Shaneyfelt, Wayne. 1987. Philippine Sign Language. In:J.Van Cleve ed. Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deafness. New York: MacGraw-Hill. 97.
Gorton, L. 1984. A gift of love and language. Deaf education and Peace Corps in the Philippines. In :Salaysayan.(December 1984): 18-20.
1976. People of the Silent World. Philippine Association of the Deaf, Inc. Makati: Philippine.
Berger, Kenneth W. 1969. A history of the education of the deaf in the Philippines. In : American Annals of the Deaf. 114: 79-94.
Wright, John Dutton. 1926. Schools for the Deaf in the Orient. In : Volta Review.28: 49-52. [Subsequent articles on pp. 348-355; 415-417; 593-595; 769-770; report on South Asian schools.(includs Philippines, Japan, Burma(Myanmar), India and Ceylon(Sri Lanka))
Researchers
History of sign language research
Events
Links
Sign Languages in Asia: Philippines (Data offered by Deaf informants in Philippines; movies made by Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies)
Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: Philippines
Philippine Deaf Resource Center Official Website
Idea(International Deaf education association) Official Website
Notes
Asia (general) | Asia (general) |
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East Asia | China | Japan | Mongolia | North Korea | South Korea |
Southeast Asia | Brunei | Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Vietnam |
South Asia | Bangladesh | Bhutan | India | Maldives | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka |
West Asia | Afghanistan |
Areas and others | Hong Kong | Macau | Taiwan |