Sign Language

1. We have been working on learning how to sign these past couple of days.
2. We learned that we have to be patient with trying to learn ASL and that you need to move your hands as smooth as possible when signing something. We have also learned that learning how to sign is not as easy as we thought it would be. It is actually quite hard as a beginner.
3. The challenges that we faced were that we need to sign correctly and know how to read sign language. Also that we have to do facial expressions with the signs which is sort of funny to do at first because when practicing the sign we aren’t really feeling that emotion, but we have to show it with the sign in order for the person to understand how we feel as we are signing it to them.
4. Are next steps for us is to learn more sign language so we can know how to communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing people properly.  Image found :  http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/signing-for-dummies-cheat-sheet.html

Deaf Power !!!!

We have been working on a PowerPoint presentation. Our PowerPoint presentation is about what Deaf culture is and what it is Deaf/deaf people. In the process of doing the PowerPoint, we learned that deaf communities around the world view themselves as member to a cultural and linguistic group. Another thing is they not only consist of deaf or hard of hearing people in their community, they have family members, sign language interpreters, and people who work or socialize with the deaf community. We also learned that deaf people meet with each other at deaf clubs, events, sporting matches and conventions regularly.The challenges we faced were that we needed to find accurate and reliable sources in order to put the information we got into our PowerPoint presentation. Our next step is to review our PowerPoint and see whether it is good enough or if we need more information to present to our audience.                                                                                                                                                                       Image found at: https://www.pinterest.com/pilarstenger/deaf/