homesign

plural homesigns

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of home sign.

   The NSL signers told the story to a peer from the same cohort, and the homesigners told the story to a communication partner familiar with their homesign system. All of the narratives were videotaped for later analysis.

   2010, Gaurav Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli, editors, Deaf Around the World: The Impact of Language, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 131

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   Would it make any difference to you as a jury member if this was the only therapist with any sign skills within five hundred miles? A thousand miles? Does it make any difference to you that the client used homesigns rather than American Sign Language?

   2002, Virginia Gutman, editor, Ethics in Mental Health and Deafness, Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, →ISBN, page 45