Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语)。 But Stokoe believed the “hand talk” his students used looked riche...
Sign (vertical, small — "Self Service") e-VS Delivery Confirmation DBCS Repair Notification Fasten Seatbelt COD First-Class Mail Tracer Label Green Project Tree Adhesive Leaves Deposit Mail Here Hazmat Surface Only Universal GS1 DataMatrix Barcode Label for MARS Sorting Machines, Set 1A Universal GS...
I’m Deaf (Notice the Capital D) with a deaf friend by Alex (Buffalo) I’ve been learning sign language for four years now, and have just recently started considering myself OK at it. When I first met my deaf friend, Issac, I expected him to shut me out and look down on me for...
A friend of mine is rapidly loosing her hearing, she is scared, and when she told me how it upset her how isolated she will feel because she can’t learn to hear, but people can learn to sign, and they don’t bother to. It was a huge eye opener for me. So we sat, and she ...
Deaf Culture is perhaps the most important part of learning American Sign Language. The culture of the Deaf was first truly recognized in 1965.
American Sign Language (ASL) is a visual-gestural language used by most of the Deaf community in the United States and Canada.