ASL Jan 18

Vocabulary

  • Yes
  • No
  • So-so
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Sleep
  • Ok
  • Stressful
  • My house
  • New door
  • Window

ASL

  • ASL: richly complex and visual
  • 70% of the information is not on the signs
  • American Sign Language utilizes facial expressions and body movements for linguistic expression
  • 70% of ASL is produced in facial expressions and body movements
  • Using topicalization followed by details: eyebrows, body and head shifting, mouth morphemes
  • Past, present and future tenses are depicted in head and body tilting
  • Raised eyebrows must happen during topicalization
  • Body shifting and head shifting are used to separate two adjectives

Manually Coded English

  • Methods created by Educators for the Deaf that mix some ASL signs, some made up English signs and English grammar
  • THESE ARE NOT TRUE LANGUAGES
  • MCE (Manually Coded English)
    • S.E.E I A(SEEING eSSENTIAL eNGLISH) - TEACHING PROPER GRAMMATICALconstruction
    • S.E.E 2( Signing exact english) - English order/ add be verbs / specific pronouns / one sign for each word
    • Rochester Method- fingerspelled every word
  • C.A.S.E
    • Conceptually Accurate Signed English
    • Contact Language - also referred to as Pidgin. A broken form of language / a broken form of ASL that satisfies English grammatical structure

Perspectives of Deafness

  • Pathological View
    • deafness = disability / disease
    • deafness = to be cured/fixed
  • Cultural View
    • Deaf= Cultural identity
    • Deaf= Community
    • Deaf= ASL

Group Discussion

  • According to National Census of Deaf Population 90% of Deaf Individuals have Hearing Parents
  • 10% of deaf parents have a deaf child

Through Deaf Eyes

  1. What percentage of deaf people have hearing children?: 90%
  2. What percentage of deaf children have hearing parents?: 90%
  3. What percentage of deafness is hereditary and seen cross generationally in families?: 10%
  4. What are the three causes of deafness?: Heredity, illness, accidents
  5. How many Americans are hard of hearing to some degree?
  6. Where was the first deaf school in America?: Hartford
  7. Who was the first teacher there?: Laurent Clerc
  8. Laurent Clerc was from: Paris, France
  9. What is the name of the first deaf college?: Gallaudet collehe
    1. What was Alexander Graham Bell’s mission?: To bring language to deaf person
    2. Bell’s mother and wife were both ___: deaf
    3. What did Alexander Graham Bell prefer?: The oral method
    4. Oral schools opened in the late 1860s. These schools focused on teaching students speech training. They outlawed the use of what?: ASL
    5. What happened after the MIlan conference? Schools were instructed to use the oral method and not ASL
    6. For most of the 20th century most of the instruction in schools for the deaf was based upon what? Spoken language
    7. What were some early attempts to cure deafness?: Airplane flights, heat waves into the ears and revivals
    8. What kind of manual skills did the state schools teach?: Shoe making, printing, wood working
    9. Who was William Stoke? Why was he important?: He researched at Gallaudet University. He studied ASL and started to prove that it was a true language
    10. Which drama group started using deaf actors to perform for hearing audiences?: The National Theater for the Deaf

REMIND: INTRODUCTION HISTORY QUIZ

  • Who’s who
  • Dates and events
  • True or false
  • Multiple Choice
  • THURSDAY JANUARY 19

NEXT WEEK

  • Bring Fingerspelling Notes and Fingerspelling sheet

FINGERSPELLING NOTES \n Cooper Page 1 \n The 3 C’s of Fingerspelling \n  Context \n  What comes before and after the fingerspelled word \n  The 3 C’s of Fingerspelling \n  Configuration \n  What the fingerspelled word looks like \n  Closure \n  complete the picture with the parts you have \n Tips for Reading Fingerspelling \n  Utilize the context, your knowledge on the topic, intuition \n  Anticipate fingerspelled words \n  The 1st letter and the thumb movements are key to get the word \n  See the word as a whole and not just as individual letters \n  Become familiar with acronyms related to the deaf community (NAD,RID, FRID etc) \n Tips for Fingerspelling \n  DON’T BOUNCE \n  Think about the phonetics of the word not the individual letters \n  Go at a nice even pace \n  REMEMBER: You want the fingerspelled word to be CLEAR not FAST! \n Let’s Practice! \n  DAN \n  BOB \n  MEG \n  VAL \n  HANK \n  ZACK \n  CARL \n  WARD \n  FRED \n  JILL \n  JOAN \n  PAUL \n  QUEEN \n  SUE \n  MAY \n  XIO \n  TAMI \n Shapes of the Letters

FINGERSPELLING NOTES \n Cooper Page 2 \n  Fist Letters \n  A, E,N,M,O,S,T \n  Palm/Big Letters \n  B,D,F,K,L,R,U,V,W \n  Palm down Letter \n  P,Q \n  Palm to the Side \n  G,H \n  Letters with movement \n  J,Z \n  Others \n  C,I,Y, X \n AN \n BAN \n CAN \n DAN \n FAN \n MAN \n PAN \n RAN \n TAN \n VAN \n AT \n BAT \n CAT \n FAT \n HAT \n MAT \n PAT \n RAT \n SAT \n VAT \n ID \n BID \n CID \n DID \n HID \n KID \n LID \n MID \n RID \n SID \n OT \n BOT \n COT \n DOT \n GOT \n HOT \n JOT \n LOT \n NOT \n POT \n IT \n BIT \n FIT \n HIT \n KNIT \n MITT \n PIT \n SIT \n TWIT \n WIT \n ET \n BET \n GET \n JET \n MET \n NET \n PET \n SET \n WET \n YET \n AM \n BAM \n DAM \n HAM \n JAM \n PAM \n RAM \n SAM \n TAM \n WHAM \n ATE \n BATE \n DATE \n FATE \n GATE \n HATE \n KATE \n LATE \n MATE \n RATE \n OLD \n BOLD \n COLD \n FOLD \n GOLD

FINGERSPELLING NOTES \n Cooper Page 3 \n HOLD \n MOLD \n SOLD \n TOLD \n WOLD \n TH \n THE \n THO \n THY \n THEN \n THIS \n THIN \n THAT \n THEM \n THEY \n THINK \n THANK \n THROB \n WITH \n RUTH \n MATH \n OO \n BOO \n ZOO \n TOO \n GOO \n MOO \n WOOL \n NOOK \n SOON \n ROOM \n NOODLE \n RACOON \n STOOL \n WOOLY \n GLOOM \n ER \n HER \n LEER \n DEER \n HERD \n VERY \n MERE \n SEER \n CERTS \n EERIE \n JERRY \n GERMAN \n BUTLER \n PERIOD \n CAREER \n LAWYER \n EA \n EAT \n SEA \n PEA \n YEA \n LEA \n HEAT \n BEAM \n REAP \n DEAL \n HEAR \n HOSEA \n EASE \n JEANS \n PEAL \n QU \n QUAD \n QUIZ \n QUILL \n QUICK \n EQUAL \n SEQUEL \n SQUALL \n ACQUIRE \n QUAKE \n SQUAWK \n QUORUM \n QUIZZICAL \n QUANTITY \n QUARTER \n MOSQUE \n OA \n COAT \n FOAM \n FOAL \n GOAT \n GOAL \n ROAN \n MOAT \n FLOAT \n THROAT \n GLOAT \n LAOMY \n SOAK \n LOAN