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Letter: Sign this way

Published 5 June 2013

From Clive Neal-Sturgess, Professor of clinical biomechanics, University of Birmingham

Your article on gestural control of computers talks about a number of possible systems (25 May, p 40), but sign language is not mentioned. Surely this is well recognised and, if adopted, could be a useful extra communication tool for deaf people.

Alcester, Warwickshire, UK

Issue no. 2920 published 8 June 2013

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