Definitions
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- verb communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language
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Examples
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But watching other people fingerspell totally defeated me.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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But watching other people fingerspell totally defeated me.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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The Alexanders demonstrate how Bridgman's education laid the foundation for Keller's success 50 years later, for it was Bridgman who taught Keller's teacher how to fingerspell.
New children's book explores world of Laura Bridgman, deaf-blind pioneer BA Haller 2008
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At this point I tried to fingerspell my last name.
The TC 10K 2008, I go to Slapstick First Aid, the fight to have a gender AND use a wheelchair Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Yeah, as long as I can write, Dragon Speak, dictate, fingerspell or blink, I will keep narrating.
How do you go on? Elizabeth McClung 2008
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At this point I tried to fingerspell my last name.
Archive 2008-04-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Here's to the day when they ramp justice, curb cut equality and fingerspell freedom.
Blogging Against Disabilism: I believe....one day Elizabeth McClung 2008
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# When interacting in Deaf culture, it is commonly preferred that one act out or gesture for a word they do not know in sign rather than fingerspell it.
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I can fingerspell myself but when other people fingerspell I have a hard time simply because of lack of practice.
AllDeaf.com Ribs 2009
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So I tried to fingerspell “Shock” because my body was doing it’s tremble thing.
The TC 10K 2008, I go to Slapstick First Aid, the fight to have a gender AND use a wheelchair Elizabeth McClung 2008
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