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Sign Language

I began teaching myself sign language when I was 15 in order to communicate with a new friend who was deaf. At 16, I enrolled in North Hennepin community college's extension program for sign language. I waited (and waited, and waited) for the college systems to accept ASL as an official second language so that I could apply it toward my degree requirements. Finally, they did, and NHCC began offering accredited courses. I took 1-5 then successfully tested for proficiency at the University of Minnesota.

Baby Sign

Learning Sign Language

In the past, I have interpreted on occasions when the availability of certified interpreters was low.

Baby Sign

A few years ago, my dear friend Kristin (also hearing) enlightened me -- and demonstrated -- on how teaching sign language to her hearing toddler improved communications between parent and child.

This little one is signing the word "more" -- as in "Give me another f-ing cookie or I'll sh-t my pants on our new sofa. Oh yeah...."please?"

I learned that children, even from infancy, have the capacity to learn to communicate through sign, even though they can't talk yet. Turns out that babies develop muscles in their hands before the muscles they need to talk.

Incredible!!!

Web Sites for Learning Sign Language

HandSpeak.com -- Creative and educational resources for those open to communicating with their hands. Includes American Sign Language, Baby Sign (for Deaf and Hearing children), the value of guesturing while travelling and scuba diving, communicating with animals and professions that benefit from communicating with hand signs, signals and guestures.

Karen Nakamura's Deaf Library -- an academic site with linguistic, historical and information on American Sign Language and Deaf culture. lots of links to useful resources.

ASL Pro -- a series of American Sign Language dictionaries and quizzes on words, phrases and fingerspelling.

Deaf Nation - Social Networking for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Members. They have Expos and recorded interviews online. Great for students practicing reading ASL and those of us who are brushing up our signing skills.

Harry Markowitz's American Sign Language Myths - truths about American Sign Language are revealed here.

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