Educational Placement Options
Manners Signs
Feelings Signs
Clothes Signs
Housing Signs
100
What is the Oral Method?
A method that doesn't involve sign and emphasizes auditory training and lip-reading.
100
Sign for "please"
"5" circles on chest
100
Sign for "like"
two hands pulling away from chest and close first fingers
100
Sign for "dress"
Fist to five going from chest down
100
Sign for "house"
two hands separate to form a house shape
200
What is the Bilingual-Bicultural approach?
A mix of both oral methods and signing
200
Sign for "sorry"
fist circles on chest
200
Sign for "embarrassed"
Two '5"s circling on cheeks
200
Sign for "shirt"
Pinch fingers on shoulders
200
Sign for "apartment"
Fingerspell APT
300
What is mainstreaming?
Sending a disabled child to public school without special classes
300
Sign for "excuse me"
15 with fingers swiping palm
300
Sign for "emotions"
two "E"s face eachother and circle
300
Sign for "pants"
use hands to frame thighs
300
Sign for "live alone"
"live" sign then "one" goes to chest
400
What is Total Communication?
A philosophy which mixes speech and signing.
400
"Forgive" sign
15 on palm with fingers moving towards person
400
Sign for "bored"
hooked finger under eye
400
Sign for "belt"
two fingers opening and closing over waist
400
Sign for "dorm"
"D" from chin to ear
500
What is a Residential School?
A boarding school for only deaf children
500
"You're Welcome" sign
5 circles out then back into ribs
500
Sign for "lazy"
L taps on left side of chest
500
Sign for "socks"
two fingers pointing and rubbing together
500
Sign for "home"
hand from chin to ear
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