Activities and WH
Sign "Party" and 'When?"
The sign PARTY can be done with either "Y" handshapes or with "P" handshapes. PARTY: Wrists stay straight, arms swing back and forth.
The sign for "when" is made by holding your left index finger up (if you are right handed). Your palm should face right. Bring the tip of your right index finger near to the tip of your left index finger.
Sign "Write"
The sign for "write" uses a quick scribbling movement across the palm of the left hand. The tip of the index finger is touching the dip of the thumb.
Sign "Jump"
Partner Signs correct sign
Sign "Help me"
Help: losing your left hand into an "A." Place the outstretched palm of your right hand under the left "A" hand and raise both hands towards yourself
Can I give myself a name sign?
No, your name sign has to be decided by a deaf person
Sign "Church, Mosque, and Temple"
The sign for "church, mosque, or temple" is made by forming the letter "c, m, or t" with your dominant hand. Form your non-dominant hand into an "S" hand. Place your dominant hand on the back of your non-dominant hand.
Sign "Pen/Pencil"
Form hand into a handshape that looks like you're holding a pencil in dominant hand, holding hand near mouth and then bring dominant hand down near the palm of non-dominant hand and make a writing movement
Sign "Turn Off AND On Lights"
Off: Dominant hand flicks chins twice with middle finger and lifts hand above head, outstretched, and then closes it
On: Dominant hand flicks chin twice with middle finger and lifts hand above head, closed in a flat "O" and open it, outstretched
Sign "To Move"
With both hands, make flat O's, fingers facing out and around chest-level, move hands to your non-dominant side
Explain certain mannerisms that deaf people display
Hitting table, waving hands, using deaf apps to do phonecalls, having lights to remind them of alarms, talking for a long time
Sign "Walk, Jump, and Fall"
Walk: hold your flat hands in front of you and move them as if they were feet in the process of walking
Jump: Bring one hand up about chest height, palm up. With your other hand, Tap the fingertips of the second hand on the palm a couple of times, bending the middle and pointer fingers up and down as you go, as if your hand was jumping
Fall:Use the upside down "V"-handshape to "stand on the non-dominant palm. Then show the "V"-handshape falling off the palm and downward a foot or so.
Sign "Study"
Hold your non-dominant hand out in front of you as if it were a book or piece of paper. Aim the fingers of your dominant hand at the "book" and wiggle your fingers.
Sign "Open Door"
Open: The right hand pivots open and then closes. The left hand stays stationary.
Sign "Book"
Cup your hands together with flat hands, and open and close them twice, forming a book opening and closing shape
Explain the Medical and Cultural view of Deafness
The pathologic view tends to look at deafness as a disability that can be corrected via medical treatment so the deaf person is "normalized." In contrast, the cultural view embraces the identity of being deaf but does not necessarily reject medical aid.
Sign 3 WH Words
Partner checks if they're correct
Sign "Test/Exam"
Starts with index fingers straight, then bends them into "x" handshapes as the hands move downward. Then the hands change into palm-down "5" handshapes.
Sign "Stand Up AND Sit Down"
Stand: Dominant hand in an upside down "V" shape, placed upright on Non-Dominant hand in an open palm "standing"
Sit Down: With both hands in "U" handshapes, place your dominant hand horizontally on your non-dominant hand, making a sort of "X" shape
Sign "Sure"
The sign for "sure/true" is made by placing the dominant index finger against your lips and then moving it away
What is a CODA and what is an issue they struggle with?
A "Child of a Deaf Adult", they struggle with their identity between the deaf and hearing world.
Sign "To get better/worse"
Better:Dominant sides arm is held in front of them and non-dominant hand moves from wrist to elbow
Worse: Dominant sides arm is held in front of them and non-dominant hand moves from elbow to wrist
Sign "Student" and "Teacher
Student:Flat hand, palm facing upward. Take your dominant hand and and grab off of your palm. Lift up and move to upper side of head, then move hands into flat handshape and gesture up and down near mid-area, as if holding a box
Teacher: starts with both hands held up near the head in somewhat "flattened O" handshapes. Then both hands move forward a Then they change into "flat hands"and move downward to gesture up and down near mid-area as if holding a box
Sign "Did you turn off the Lights?"
YOU DID TURN-OFF-LIGHTS
You: Point to person with dominant hand
Did: Both hands faced down, outstretched slightly, move back and forth synchronized
TOL: Dominant hand flicks chins twice with middle finger and lifts hand above head, outstretched, and then closes it
Sign "To Give" but change the size (ex. car keys,a really big book)
With a flat "O" handshape (change depending on the object), move your hand towards another person, "giving it to them"
Exlpain the importance of "Deaf President Now" and at least 2 rules that the students wanted enforced
The movement lasted 3 days and was a protest by Gallaudet students to employ a deaf president, as even though Gallaudet was a deaf school, it had a hearing president. It also discarded other discriminatory administrators and applied 4 rules--
1.Zinser must resign and a deaf president be selected.
2.Spilman must resign from the Board.
3.The percentage of deaf members on the Board of Trustees must be increased to at least 51%.
4.There must be no reprisals against any of the protesters.