Deafies in Drag: Deaf 101 Learning ASL

Genuinely funny and hilarious facts about hearing people learning American Sign Language incorrectly.

The Deaf comedy duo, cheekily nicknamed "Deafies in Drag" has been making YouTube videos, which is covering "Deaf 101 Learning ASL".

Many people want to learn American Sign Language and while there are many videos online, the best tips are learn from an experienced Deaf, CODA, or ASL user that teach as a profession and socialize more with the Deaf community.

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Internet Slang Meets American Sign Language

How do you sign "new" words? The Deaf community works as a network, collectively brainstorming new sign language term over the web, until dominant emerge.

Hope and Fears: As language evolves, the powers that regulate language tend to shift. Just look at the Oxford English Dictionary, who added terms like “duck face,” “lolcat,” and “hawt” to their prestigious lexicon this past December. For the English-speaking world, these additions are anywhere from ridiculous to annoying but at the end of the day, the terms are accepted and agreed upon.

But how do these new, internet-laden turns of phrase enter the sign language community? Was there a way of expressing “selfie” in ASL, was there a sign for “photobomb?” Our simplistic question turned into a larger conversation about the nature of communication.

We turned to Bill Vicars, the president and owner of an organization called Lifeprint, a company who educates through “technology-enhanced delivery of ASL Instruction, excursion-based instruction (trips to amusement parks), and extended-immersion-based program coordination (intense two-week residencies).”

Vicars himself is Deaf/HH, which means he is hard of hearing and culturally Deaf as he has immersed himself in the Deaf community. “In addition to my co workers, the majority of my friends are Deaf… my wife is Deaf,” Vicars explains. (Capitalizing ‘Deaf’ refers to the Deaf community, as noted by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries, in Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture (1988), “We use the lowercase deaf when referring to the audiological condition of not hearing, and the uppercase Deaf when referring to a particular group of deaf people who share a language - American Sign Language and a culture.”

Vicars' website also offers a dictionary of ASL signs. The dictionary has been an ongoing project for Vicars since he started his organization and his means of including words is a multi-tiered process. photobombs: Read The Full Story.

The Universal Language Is In Our Minds

Dr. Boudreault: The universal language is in our minds.

BERKELEY, California -- Dr. Patrick Boudreault, who is Deaf, grew up in a quadrilingual and bilingual community in Quebec, Canada. He is a native signer of Langue des Signes Québécoise (LSQ) and American Sign Language (ASL), and is fluent in written French and English.

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The University of California Berkeley linguistics lecturer Dr. Boudreault, explains that language is a fluid thing that's not just spoken. It's something universal that happens in our minds, whether it's communicated with our hands or our voice.

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Dr. Boudreault is currently a visiting professor with Graduate Studies and Research at Gallaudet University. He serves as co-principal investigator with Dr. Christina Palmer of the University of California, Los Angeles on a grant from the National Cancer Institute on implementing online cancer genetics education in ASL to increase the Deaf community's access to culturally and linguistically appropriate materials.

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American Sign Language as a Foreign Language

The U.S. recognizing American Sign Language as a foreign language.

WASHINGTON, DC -- Presently, approximately 20 states support this argument and recognize ASL as a foreign language. In addition, numerous colleges and universities offer credits for ASL as a foreign language.

American Sign Language (ASL) is a complete, complex language that employs signs made with the hands and other movements, including facial expressions and postures of the body. No one form of sign language is universal (NIDCD, 2000).

However, International Sign Language has been developed so that people may communicate between nations. International sign language is composed of vocabulary signs from different sign languages that Deaf people agreed to use at international events and meetings (Lapiak, 2001).

In general, sign language can be used to break down the barriers between the hearing and Deaf communities.

Here in the United States, American Sign Language is the primary language of an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 Americans, including Deaf native signers, hearing children of Deaf parents, and fluent Deaf signers who have learned ASL from other Deaf individuals (Wilcox, 1989).

ASL is said to be the fourth most commonly used language in the United States (NIDCD, 2000). Because of this, students are increasingly learning sign language in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary classrooms around the country.

Most of the time it is offered in speech, education, or communication disorder departments rather than in foreign language department. One reason for this is the fact that there is a limited amount of licensed sign language teachers.

Qualifications for these teachers include a formal background in second language pedagogy, experience teaching ASL, and verifiable proficiency in ASL (Kanda & Fleischer, 1988)... Read The Full Story.

First Nations Sign Language Council of 1930

Documentary: Indian Sign Language: First Nations Council of 1930.

The following clips are from a gathering of Native American chiefs, medicine men, and elders representing more than a dozen different nations.

The films were produced by General Hugh L. Scott and the U.S. Department of the Interior by an Act of Congress, for the purpose of preserving and recording Indian Sign Language in a variety of discourse styles.

The meeting took place in September of 1930 in Browning, Montana, and is the largest known gathering of high-ranking representatives from Indian Nations to be filmed up until then.

This footage comes courtesy of the National Archives, and was digitized with support from the Office of the Chancellor at the University of Tennessee.

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10 Interesting Facts About Deaf People

Allison Roberts: 10 Interesting Facts About Deaf People.

A blogger Allison's video on YouTube to educate and awareness to hearing people of 10 interesting facts about the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people.

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Allison Roberts, who is a hearing person and ASL student, which is issuing a call to action, inviting community to be part of the solution to explain why she is doing a good cause, to educating and awareness about the Deaf people.

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ASL Rose: Two Deaf Babies

Deaf Awareness: "Two Deaf Babies" Short Film Documentary

ASL Rose was founded in 2004 by two Deaf women, Dr. E. Lynn Jacobowitz and Dr. Adonia K. Smith, for the purpose of creating, publishing, and distributing ASL-English bilingual materials.

ASL Rose provides consultation, training, material development, and video production. The guiding philosophy of ASL Rose is that all of our products provide access to both ASL (DVD, web-based TV, animated video) and English (text, closed captions, and voice-over) audiences.

The first product of ASL Rose, Have You Ever Seen…? An American Sign Language (ASL) Handshape DVD/Book received a five-star rating review in the educational book category at https://aslrose.com/history.

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ASL Is A Gift Translated By Deanne Bray

"ASL is a Gift" is a poem written by Julie Rems-Smario and translated by Deanne Bray.

Final revision of American Sign Language translation on September 21, 2012. It was June 2012 when Wayne Betts gave one small suggestion in adding something to ASL. He signed SI5S. I expanded on that idea and made this version into the translation that I am fully content and will stick to this.

Here is my ASL translation of ASL is a GIFT in American Sign Language.

Julie Rems-Smario wrote...

ASL is a gift of language
ASL is a gift of embracing
ASL is a gift of understanding
ASL is a gift of communication

ASL is a gift of dignity
ASL is a gift of acceptance
ASL is a gift of creativity
ASL is a gift of intelligence

ASL is a gift of connection
ASL is a gift of expression
ASL is a gift of healthy self-esteem
ASL is a gift of creating a whole child
ASL is a gift of human rights for your Deaf child
ASL is a gift of love.

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Black American Sign Language and American Sign Language Are Different Languages

Sign language that African Americans use is different from that of Whites.

WASHINGTON, DC -- Carolyn McCaskill remembers exactly when she discovered that she couldn’t understand white people. It was 1968, she was 15 years old, and she and nine other Deaf black students had just enrolled in an integrated school for the Deaf in Talledega, Ala.

When the teacher got up to address the class, Angela McCaskill was lost. “I was dumbfounded,” McCaskill recalls through an interpreter. “I was like, ‘What in the world is going on?’ ”

The teacher’s quicksilver hand movements looked little like the sign language McCaskill had grown up using at home with her two Deaf siblings and had practiced at the Alabama School for the Negro Deaf and Blind, just a few miles away. It wasn’t a simple matter of people at the new school using unfamiliar vocabularly; they made hand movements for everyday words that looked foreign to McCaskill and her fellow black students.

So, McCaskill says, “I put my signs aside.” She learned entirely new signs for such common nouns as “shoe” and “school.” She began to communicate words such as “why” and “don’t know” with one hand instead of two as she and her black friends had always done. She copied the white students who lowered their hands to make the signs for “what for” and “know” closer to their chins than to their foreheads. And she imitated the way white students mouthed words at the same time as they made manual signs for them... Read The Full Story on Washington Post.

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Gary Malkowski On UN CRPD & Oralist Agenda

Deaf Canadian Gary Malkowski on UN CRPD and oralist agenda.

To contact US Senators to have them join the other nations of the world in ratifying the CRPD go to: https://senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators.

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ASL Education: Advice For The ASL Students

This video is in response to another, named "American Sign Language Teaching, On Behalf of the Deaf Community."

Rather than attack teachers with blanket statements, which may or may not be justified on a case-by-case basis, it's best that students be directly educated to choose the best ASL teachers.

If you, as a student, would read every Amazon.com review in deciding whether or not to purchase a $10 cookbook, but blindly spend hundreds of dollars on an ASL course you know nothing about, you have to examine your priorities, frankly.

If you want to take ASL and really learn the language, you cannot simply rely on the knowledge of college administrators who hire adjunct instructors. You have to ask people who know much more. The answer may surprise you. The best available teacher might be hearing. But, if that's the case, then I can practically guarantee that your teacher did everything they possibly could to learn directly from the Deaf community. You must accept this path to learning as well.

Don't become discouraged. Learn ASL. But to teach, you absolutely must have skills on par with the best of the best ASL teachers. Would you want anything less to be true of your own teachers? "American Sign Language Teaching, On Behalf of the Deaf Community."

ASL Teachers Criticism of ASL Music Video

The expert of ASL teachers criticism of music video.

The expert ASL teaching consultant saying "No Church In The Wild - JAY-Z & Kanye West (Sign Language)" That video is NOT sign language at all.

I am a hearing ASL teacher, this is my personal opinion of the recent "No Church in the Wild" video posted by 3 hearing ASL students. I apologize for the background noise, I made this video in my classroom. Here is a transcript for the non-ASL community: Hello, I'm Katie (my sign name). I teach ASL.

I wanted to comment about a video I recently watched , "No Church In The Wild (Sign Language)". That video is NOT sign language. Honestly, I would use that video to show my students what NOT to do when signing music.

Now, I don't want to insult the three boys in the video. I think it's really cool you enjoy and want to sign music. I think it's awesome that you are so motivated, and I encourage you to continue improving your skills. Socialize with the Deaf community, get involved, learn, and gain experience from signing masters.

BUT... your current video is lousy. You have "dead faces"... no facial expressions or body moments, no grammatical structure... it's like you just randomly grabbed words out of thin air. Your video isn't clear, either.

Honestly, that video would be very embarrassing for an ASL teacher. And embarrassing for hearing people. I'm hearing. I would never take advantage of the Deaf community, of their language and culture, like you did. I'm sorry, but you took advantage of them, and that's not appropriate.

I encourage you to continue to improve yourselves, and I promise you, 10 years from now, you'll look back at your "No Church for the Wild (Sign Language)" video and be embarrassed of yourselves, too.

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The Facts Of American Sign Language

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American Sign Language Teaching: On behalf of the Deaf community. American Sign Language facts and researched facts about ASL.

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Music Video By Deaf Children On The ABC News

Deaf children don’t hear music the way many of us do, but perhaps they hear it the way through the whole body.

HIGHLAND, Michigan -- Ten-year-old Noah Rangel of Lake Orion is Deaf, but that didn’t stop him from feeling the pulse of the White Stripes’ song “We're Going To Be Friends” when he signed the lyrics in a new music video. “Instead of standing and talking and hearing the music like that, we can feel the music,” signed Noah, using American Sign Language. “We just stand and sign the song instead. So it’s really not that much different.”

The Deaf Professional Arts Network, also known as D-PAN, coordinated the music video this summer, shooting it in Bloomfield Hills and featuring children who are either Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing.

Rangel’s friend, Morgan Nimmo, also appeared in the video, which has gone viral. “I did good!” said seven-year old Morgan during an interview at her home in Highland. “I thought I was going to do bad, but I was great. I was proud of myself.” With more than 258,000 hits on YouTube.com in just a week and a half, she certainly has something to be proud of.

The American Sign Language Music Video By Deaf Children "We're Going To Be Friends". The original video as seen on: D-PAN ASL Music Video "We're Going To Be Friends" By The White Stripes.

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White Stripes "We're Going To Be Friends" Produced by D-PAN, the Deaf Professional Arts Network. American Sign Language Direction by Ronald Dans. Directed by Nicholas Hill of Lucky Airlines.

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Why American Sign Language?

This video discusses why we should provide a Deaf baby American Sign Language as early as possible.

References:
*Mayberry, Rachel (1998) The critical period for language acquisition and the Deaf child's language comprehension: A psycholinguistic approach. Bulletin d'Audiophonologie: Annales Scientifiques de L'Université de Franche-Comté, 15.

*Woolfe, Tyron/Herman, Rosalind/Roy, Penny/Woll, Bencie (2010), Early Lexical Development in Native Signers: A BSL Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI. In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 51, 322--331.

*Pichler, Debbie C. LIN 510: Introduction to first and second language acquisition. Gallaudet University, Washington D.C.. Sep. 2011. Lectures.

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