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What is origin of Sign Systems?

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In the mid 20th century some educators of the Hearing Impaired came up with an idea of making English visible by representing the spoken word in sign form. This gave rise to Sign Systems. One such educator was Richard Paget. He was the first to develop such a system. He called it the Systematic Sign Language and published an account of it in 1951. Paget first proposed that a sign represents an English word and that signs be ordered in the same way that English words are ordered.
About a decade after the formal publication or a description of the Systematic Sign Language another educator, David Antony began work with the Hearing Impaired in Michigan with the same ideas and goals. Antony devised a system called Seeing Essential English (SEE-I), which seeks to represent the sound, spelling and
meaning of parts of English words, more specifically, word roots, prefixes and suffixes.
Disagreements concerning the rules of the system resulted in a second sign system named Signing Exact English (SEE-II). This system was developed by Gerilee Gustason, Pfetzig and Zawalkov in 1972. SEE-II was best characterised as an attempt to limit SEE I, inorder to prevent the system from becoming so distant from American Sign Language (ASL) that it was rendered unintelligible to ASL signers.
In 1983 Harry Bornstein and Karen Saulnear developed another system, Signed English (SE), specifically for use by and with pre-school and elementary level hearing impaired children. In this system, gestures or signs are used to represent the meaning of words most frequently used by and with pre-school children.

Titany answered the question on May 12, 2022 at 09:35

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