Signed Spanish andSigned Exact Spanish are any of severalmanually coded forms ofSpanish that apply the words (signs) of a nationalsign language to Spanish word order or grammar. In Mexico, Signed Spanish uses the signs ofMexican Sign Language;[1] in Spain, it uses the signs ofSpanish Sign Language, and there is a parallelSigned Catalan that uses the signs ofCatalan Sign Language along with oralCatalan. Signed Spanish is used in education and for simultaneous translation, not as a natural form of communication among deaf people. The difference between Signed Spanish and Signed Exact Spanish is that while Signed Spanish uses the signs (but not the grammar) of Spanish Sign Language, and augments them with signs for Spanish suffixes such as-dor and-ción, and with fingerspelling for articles and pronouns, Signed Exact Spanish (and Signed Exact Catalan) has additional signs for the many grammatical inflections of oral Spanish.[2] All signed forms of Spanish drop the grammatical inflections of the sign languages they take their vocabulary from.