ASL courses for deaf people?

jillio said:
That raises a good point. Maybe I will address this with the Dean when I get back. Should native ASL users be able to get foreign langauge credit for taking English?
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A well-intended thought, Jillio but here's the rub and I see it all the time: The people who hire these ASL instructors are hearing people in the main; what do they know about assessing someone (applicants) for the job?
 
I am PSE signer but many time Treps or deafies not understand my signing so I need learn ASL as same as hearing learning.
 
vallee said:
I just signed up for ASL classes through a local church. I start on Wednesday. My nine year old and I are starting. I wanted to take the class offered by the university, but it is on a night I have other things to do and 300 for a half of semester.

I also found a deaf/hard of hearing Sunday School class.

I am not a visual learner. I am auditory. Any suggestions????
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Glad to hear that vallee. Good luck, and keep us informed on your progress. Suggestions for an auditory learner? Just going to have to learn how not to assign sound to the signs in order to comprehend the concept. That is the problem that many hearing students of ASL encounter. You can't think of ASL as the equivalent of an orally based language. You just have to see it. Like when you look at a painting. You just see it, and you intuit meaning before you are able to describe what you see in words.
 
jillio said:
Glad to hear that vallee. Good luck, and keep us informed on your progress. Suggestions for an auditory learner? Just going to have to learn how not to assign sound to the signs in order to comprehend the concept. That is the problem that many hearing students of ASL encounter. You can't think of ASL as the equivalent of an orally based language. You just have to see it. Like when you look at a painting. You just see it, and you intuit meaning before you are able to describe what you see in words.
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Yea, that was the mistake I did at first until my brother told me to think in pictures. It was like I got it finally.
 
shel90 said:
Yea, that was the mistake I did at first until my brother told me to think in pictures. It was like I got it finally.
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Yeah, I did it too early on. That was how a deaf guy explained it to me and it worked.
 
Deaf people take asl courses all the time. Some do it for just practice, some like me .. to get an easy A (4.0) to boost the gpa lol, and others because they have never learnt asl. Whatever the reasons are though the deaf are very welcomed in asl classes.
 
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