Only a Quarter of Parents to Deaf Kids Know Sign Language

And, I have offered before that if anybody would like to skype me, they can. The invitation is still there. If you want to practice specific signs or get more comfortable with conversational sign usage, give it a try.
 
deafgal001 said:
This make me feel that children should have ASL classes. I would volunteer to teach public school at 15 minutes ASL twice a week if I knew how. Some people's mind seem so hardwired.
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This may be a bit off topic but I think, better yet: ASL should be part of the curriculum at all schools alongside the usual R's...
 
Grendal, you'll have to look for a deaf person who know ASL and lives on a horse farm. I'm sure there plenty of horse farms who work with deaf children as well. Ask them what they use to to sign for mare/colt/etc.

Or go to interpreter workshops if you want to go in depth.
 
deafgal001 said:
None, just that I don't use a fiction book.
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So you don't see any value in Shakespeare's works, in the writings of John Locke, in Milton's poetry, because it's not, what, a receipt from the gas station?

Do you know how important a full language is to facilitating the thought process? If you don't have a word, or a symbol, or a specific way of signing something, you can't effectively think it. The limits of your language influence the limits of your thought.
 
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Tousi said:
This may be a bit off topic but I think, better yet: ASL should be part of the curriculum at all schools alongside the usual R's...
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My daughter's school is adding it to the curriculum this year, much like English is taught formally, now ASL will be as well.
 
deafgal001 said:
Never read newspeak so I don't know what you are talking about.

But I'm just saying, be careful about thinking english words. it is not the same thing.
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Be more to the point if you ever read Shakespeare. Then the point would not be lost on you.
 
GrendelQ said:
Your takeaway from this discussion is that Shakespeare, Orwell, and other great writers discredit ASL?
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I don't know why you had to bring it in. If you want in depth, then go learn it.

I know about being visual. It is not meaningless. I even use drawing for more complex issues.
 
newspeak. oldspeak. I love it. it's awesomely creative but I digress.... this thread is about ASL, not English.
 
Keep in mind that these novelists and playwrights did not write their stories in ASL. Just as ASL storytellers didn't write their stories in English. People can translate them either ways, but the best way is always to hear or see them in its original form.

I've read several of these famous plays and novels in the past. Shakespeare's works are incredibly expressive. Orwell's works, especially 1984 is pretty bleak and politically-fuelled. So was Animal Farm, I remember reading that novel as if it was yesterday. Too bad the movies based on that particular novel are poorly adapted.

Fahrenheit 451 is a great read, just a tad too many metaphors though... regardless... it's worth a read. The film adaptation was awful though. I can see a great movie being made out of it, but they just haven't done it yet.
 
deafgal001 said:
LD classes don't teach it. But I wouldn't understand a single thing anway. I tried.. but it doesn't make sense at all. Cliff notes come very handy.
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oh I see. yea Shakespeare stories are hard to read. old English style. frustrated the crap out of me in school.

"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me." :lol:
 
deafgal001 said:
I'm terrible at poems. Throw me any poetry and I have no idea what you are talking about.
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how bad is your LD?

and I assume anything abstract is your weakness? or is it writing style?
 
Just English.

No learning disability if that's what you are asking. It's my cognitive skills, hence why Shel keep saying ASL is important.

My abstract is just fine. In fact, when bott had a picture of a lizard in her Avatar at one time, I noticed it is a ear and hearing aid.
 
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