Transcription for people with low vision or blindness:
- Can increase your charisma: a research by the University of San Diego shows that learning Sign Language improves nonverbal communication, which is one of the components of the charisma.
- Makes you mentally more agile: RIT University research shows that early exposure to Sign Language improves mental skills related to executive functions.
- Stops the progress of arthritis: organizations from Mexico and Chile have successfully launched projects to learn their Sign Languages in older people, obtaining the same results as traditional therapies.
- Improves your peripheral vision: universities in the United Kingdom and France showed that learning Sign Language improves the answer speed in peripheral vision even in adulthood, useful for driving or sports.
- Powers up your artistic skills: people who learn Sign Language take up to 35% less time than hearing people to find the most significant points of artworks or discover new meanings in poetry.
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Sources:
- Casey, S., Emmorey, K., & Larrabee, H. (2012). The effects of learning American Sign Language on co-speech gesture. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15(04), 677-686.
- Codina, C. J., Pascalis, O., Baseler, H. A., Levine, A. T., & Buckley, D. (2017). Peripheral visual reaction time is faster in deaf adults and British Sign Language interpreters than in hearing adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 8.
- Hauser, P. C., Lukomski, J., & Hillman, T. (2008). Development of deaf and hard-of-hearing students’ executive function. Deaf cognition: Foundations and outcomes, 286-308.
- Schúller, P. (2017, April 18). Terapia de señas: lanzan innovadora plataforma online para personas con artrítis y sordera. In La Nación Chile.
- Pérez López, S. (2014). Educación Artística y Patrimonial para la percepción, comprensión y reflexión del colectivo sordo en el ámbito museal. Estudio de casos evaluativo. PhD Thesis.
- Sola, B. (2017, March 27). Terapia de 'Manos parlantes' para personas con artritis. In Crónica.com México.
