ASL I Review

ASL II

1st 6 weeks

What are the Parameters of ASL?

P – Palm Orientation H - Handshape E - Expressions L - Location M - Movement

Palm Orientation

Which way your palm should face– Up– Down– out – in– Left– Right

Example: Table or Baby?

Handshape

Shapes of your hands (using the alphabet and numbers to sign)

Confused hand shapes – 1/D, D/F, E/O Example: I am Rita vs. My Rita

Facial Expression

Head nods/shakes, eyebrows, nose, eyes, and lips each carry a meaning that can be attached to a sign.

Example:

Location

Begin and end your sign at the correct position Signs are directional and originate away from the

body but end close, or begin close to the body and terminate away

Example: I’ll see you tomorrow

Movement

Types – Arc– Straight line– Circle– Alternating in and out– Twist of the wrist– Finger flick

Changes in Movement

Location change – one or both hand(s) move from one location to another

Changes in Movement

Direction change – one or both hand(s) change direction

Change in Movement

Hand shape change – one or both hand(s) change hand shape in mid-sign

American Sign Language

– Is not universal– Is not English– There are several different sign languages but

only ASL is the REAL language.– Native language of the North American Deaf

population.

6 different sign languages:

Non-verbal Communication In-group signs ASL PSE (Pidgin Sign English) Manual English (SEE 1, SEE 2, LOVE) Rochester Method

Non-verbal communication

Natural gestures Facial expressions Body movement Used internationally Used when common language

is not available

In-group signs

Home signs School Signs Local Signs Signs are unique to a particular group

or family Examples: football, baseball, gang,

subway

ASL

Standard Signs Finger spelling elements of pantomime Syntax of its own Ideographic Visual language that is conceptually accurate. Example: I went to the store yesterday is

signed as YESTERDAY I GO STORE.

PSE (Pidgin Sign English)

Standard Signs Contact language between English and

ASL (Hearing and Deaf) 3 guidelines followed;

– ASL in English word order– using articles and verb tenses is optional– noun plurality is deleted.

Example: I went to the store yesterday is signed and mouthed as I GO STORE YESTERDAY

Manual English

SEE 1– Seeing Essential English: Used in

Amarillo and sometimes in Richardson, TX (Amarillo sign System)

– One-on-One correlation for changing sound to hand movement.

– Uses initialized signs– visual code for Manual English– Example: comfortable, forgetfulness

Manual English

SEE 2– Signing Exact English– one sign for each morpheme in English– Example: I went to the store yesterday is

signed as I GO + ED TO THE STORE YESTERDAY.

Manual English

LOVE– Linguistics of Visual English– Deaf morphemic language that is/was not

conceptually accurate.– Example: I went to the store yesterday is

signed as I GO + ED TO THE STORE YESTER + DAY.

Rochester Method

Used when a word needs to be expressed but no sign is available.

Finger spell every single word. Example: I went to the store yesterday is

signed as I W-E-N-T T-O T-H-E S-T-O-R-E Y-E-S-T-E-R-D-A-Y.