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The Paget Gorman Sign System, also known as Paget Gorman Signed Speech (PGSS) or Paget Gorman Systematic Sign Language is a
manually coded Manually coded languages (MCLs) are a family of gestural communication methods which include gestural spelling as well as constructed languages which directly interpolate the grammar and syntax of oral languages in a gestural-visual form—that ...
form of the
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, designed to be used with children with speech or communication difficulties.


Development

PGSS was originally developed in Britain by
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Sir Richard Paget in the 1930s, and later by his wife Lady
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and Dr
Pierre Gorman Pierre Patrick Gorman, (1 October 1924 – 1 October 2006) was an Australian librarian and academic who specialised in education for children with disabilities. Gorman, born profoundly deaf, was the first deaf person to receive a doctorate at C ...
. The system is founded on the notion that the original form of all speech is sign language and it has developed to the point that it features its own grammatical sign system. It has been distinguished when it was first proposed due to the way it introduced a degree of arbitrariness. It is also based on a classificatory system and uses 37 basic signs and 21 standard hand postures, which can be combined to represent a large vocabulary of English words, including word endings and verb tenses. The system was widespread in Deaf schools in the UK from the 1960s to the 1980s, but since the emergence of
British Sign Language British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom (UK), and is the first or preferred language among the Deaf community in the UK. Based on the percentage of people who reported 'using British Sign Language at home' on ...
and the BSL-based
Signed English Manually-Coded English (MCE) is a type of sign system that follows direct spoken English. The different codes of MCE vary in the levels of directness in following spoken English grammar. There may also be a combination with other visual clues, suc ...
in deaf education, its use is now largely restricted to the field of speech and language disorder and is available if the learner has attended a course of instruction.


See also

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Namibian Sign Language Namibian Sign Language (commonly abbreviated as NSL) is a sign language of Namibia and Angola. It is presumed that there are other sign languages in these countries. The first school for the deaf was at Engela, and was established c. 1970 by ...
, a language that developed out of PGSS *
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References

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