still walking in the story .. to get to the birth of the LIS Of all the educational opportunities of which I spoke in my previous post, unfortunately, there are few written records directly to be deaf because, very often, educators are deaf to. Among the few remember
Kruse, a deaf teacher of the deaf who published a collection of biographical deaf people, in many of these stories was a clear vindication of the usefulness and importance of sign language. A change of major importance was the 1880, the year in which all disappeared tersimonianze written by deaf after the Congress of Milan, who promoted the oral methods of education, abolishing the facial expressions and isegni.
The reasons for a change so radical education were assigned, only then, the political phase of that time in Italy, daughter of the unification process. He was found necesaria unify the language. Thus, despite the education official was mold orality, sign language was used unofficially by the boys. There being, however, a transfer of codes, often deaf children learned to read without understanding the real meaning of words. In the mid-twentieth century it was realized that had spread in the dialects of the language signs, but until the early years of this century, there was no attempt to unify the language. A first step toward this unification was done by a Vicenza, Magarotto Antonio, who was one of the promoters, nel1932 of the First Meeting of the Deaf in Padua at a national level. , Thus affirming the rights of deaf and instituted an association for deaf was named National Agency for the Deaf (MSD). He also founded the first school in Padua, providing not only education of children but also the occupation of free time. It did so a first attempt, with leaders from around the world, to develop an "international language" by selecting the vocabulary of various languages. Was born in England on "Gestuno" 1500 marks in a book, but its spread was limited. Although many believe that the language of the deaf is universal, we must confirm the opposite, namely that each country has its own language. For example, in Italy we have the LIS (Italian language signs), America is the ASL (American Sign Language) and other countries there are other. You must also remember that even the "sign language" is of recent acquisition: the first of this denomination, there was talk of "mimicry", often confused with the gestures of their limbs teatrali.Verso the end worth 50 years, William Stoke compared the gestural and verbal language, finding that American Sign Language had all typical properties of a natural language. He understood the importance of the signs and realized that the language of the deaf followed grammar rules, just with a different structure than parlata.Questo work had no little success. In Italy, in the late seventies a group of doctors and psychologists in Bologna applied studies on American Sign Language italiana.Seguirono, thus, important publications such as "From gesture to the gesture, the first conference in Rome on sign language and the publication of" The signs as a word. "
was then officially adopted the term LIS (Italian Language of Signs) and were later published the first Dictionary as "The first 400 signs" and the "Dictionary of Marks" of Zanichelli.
