British Sign Language

watching sign language, anyone can tell you how expressive the language is and how beautiful the words simply flow from hand to hand, to each facial expression and gesture. Sign language is a beautiful gift that can be given to anyone, if they just took the time to learn it. Parents who know sign language and pass this down to their children in the infancy stage of their lives are benefiting their offspring more than they know. By teaching hearing, not only deaf, infants and toddlers sign…

idea the Deaf should understand us, and find ways to learn our language. This is not a hateful sentence, rather than acknowledging the truth of what little I knew. I knew there was a Deaf community and there were probably schools who took in Deaf people. I knew if the chance popped up and I could learn a little about a culture I didn’t know I would jump at it. I thought that they are different. After taking this American Sign Language class, reading this book, the extra credit, and going on the…

experienced well educated teachers who have been trained in American Sign Language and the deaf community can give barriers which might prevent the program from following through with inclusive experiences for the deaf community. The berries can be lack of materials that can the put up in the classroom for visual aids. I have found some good ones for the classroom for free on teacher pay teacher website. They are labels the show the sign and a picture of what…

Around 1760, the first public school for the deaf was launched by the Abbé Charles Michel de l’Épée in Paris (Eastman 300).” After this amazing advancement in the history of sign language, progress was very stagnant for about the next 150-200 years. From 1850 to 1990, medicinal and technological studies advanced greatly, especially concerning special education and handicap accessibility. Businesses have installed handicap services that were not available before. Job discrimination laws have been…

classes on this campus was American Sign Language. I didn’t know exactly was I was getting in to but it opened my eyes to the fact that there is this entire world that lives alone side the hearing world that we just ignore. I think the most astounding thing I’ve ever experience happened about a week after I started taking classes in American Sign Language. It was about 5 in the morning and I was sitting at the bus stop reading a book about the history of Sign…

On April 8, American Sign Language (ASL) 1 went to Bakersfield College to watch “I See the Crowd Roar”. “I See the Crowd Roar” is a movie about William “Dummy” Hoy, who was a Deaf baseball player in the late 1800s. William Hoy, was born on May 23, 1862, but he was not born Deaf, he became Deaf when he was around three years old due to meningitis; from that, he lost his hearing. Baseball was starting to pick up as a common past time and thus as a young boy, William wanted to learn and play just…

curriculum design (CD) and my CD project on American Sign Language (ASL). Through the use the ADDIE model I will develop a CD that uses real-world situations to lessen the issues the deaf community are faced with in regards to the support they receive from the emergency services and the city employees in the Belleville area. The topic for which I have chosen to create my curriculum design project on is ASL. ASL is a three-dimensional language that incorporates the use of hands, body and…

This survey was developed to investigate the public opinion of American Sign Language (ASL) as a true language. Because ASL is not a spoken language, the public may be inclined to believe that it is not a true language. Understanding public opinions of ASL as a true language is important when considering community access for individuals who use ASL. Additionally, for individuals who use ASL to feel more comfortable communicating, it is essential to understand how the public views ASL and whether…

A child of a deaf adult (CODA) is something that nobody really hears about unless they are learning American Sign Language or learning about Deaf Culture. A CODA is an individual that is raised by one or more deaf parents. Most CODAs are bilingual in a signed language and spoken language. These individuals are also bicultural because they identify with both the deaf and hearing communities. However, this can be a struggle because they have to negotiate between two completely different cultures…

A Deaf Event I took an American Sign Language class last semester, Fall2014 at San Bernardino Valley College. The teacher had us choose an event to attend for a quiz grade. She had given us many events to choose from. The one I chose was Barnes and Noble “ASL story signing.” I had chosen this event because it was the only one that worked with my schedule and also because the story signing was being told by deaf/hearing impaired children. I ended up going with my sister in-law and my 1-year-…