sign language

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Teresa Trotter @teresatrotter (4073) • Jacksonville, Florida 15 Mar 21

Years ago I learned sign language by spelling out words through letters. I never learned many gestures, but I did know how to spell out words. Today there was a package that had been sitting near the mailboxes all day, so I went...

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Sign language for all

Pankaj Pahuja @PankajPahuja (108) • New Delhi, India 18 Sep 20

I wants to make sign language global language, because we can talk with everyone in sign languages. There is much less difference in this language and people of different countries can easily communicate with it. I am trying from...

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Sign language class number 3

Denise @petatonicsca (7070) • Japan 23 Jun 20

I tried today to make the kids leave their mikes off and just sign, but that didn't work very well. I also tried having them practice fingerspelling in pairs; I assigned pairs and they were supposed to type their answers in the...

real life

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sign language

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Sign language class number 2

Denise @petatonicsca (7070) • Japan 22 Jun 20

No technical glitches today, hooray! Some of the students came in having learned and practiced the manual alphabet, but two were still a little lost. They had not gone to our school website where I had posted links for them to...

sign language

elementary

summer school

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My first sign language class

Denise @petatonicsca (7070) • Japan 21 Jun 20

My school started virtual summer school today. I studied sign language and worked some with Deaf people, so I volunteered to teach a sign language class to grades 3-5 kids who wanted to learn. I had seven students, six girls and...

elementary class

sign language

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Koko, the gorilla, who learned the sign language, has died

Marja @buenavida (9984) • Sweden 27 Jun 19

she died in her sleep at age 46 - she learned sign languages at a youg age, and was very beloved by many. She became friends with Robin Williams and the video shows how fun they had together.

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gorilla

friends

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What if you have to use sign language to buy coffee?

Cahaya @cahaya1983 (11116) • Malaysia 12 Nov 17

I was walking around one of the malls here on Saturday and thought I'd just grab a cup of hot chocolate from Starbucks before heading home. I had not been to this particular chain before, so I didn't expect anything to be...

starbucks

sign language

deaf

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ASL a way of being heard

O'Kennedy @OKennedy (1130) • United States 13 May 16

ASL an acronym that can be representative of many different things. However today that acronym stands of American Sign Language. Sign language is a method of speaking with the use of your hands instead of your mouth. This is...

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walking and learning

Tiff Gray @T_gray (7772) • Salina, Kansas 2 Jan 16

Back last summer I would walk every day with my friend Beckey. We loved it, I lost a lot of weight and I felt so much better health wise. Well when the weather started getting colder we just stopped. We stopped talking about...

sign language

walking

health

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Sign language

Tiff Gray @T_gray (7772) • Salina, Kansas 15 Nov 15

I met my friend, Beckey, just over a year ago. Sweetest thing you'll ever met. Love her to pieces. Well her and i use to be walking partners. And Beckey is also deaf, so during our walks she would also teach me sign language...

sign language

relationship

friendship

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How multilingual are you?

zandi458 @zandi458 (28102) • Malaysia 11 Nov 15

Now I realize that we come from many different countries but we are able to interact easily and freely in one universal language that is English which has become the language of the virtual world . For many of us here English is...

english

multilingual

sign language

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Signn Language

Harriet Steinberg @Happielady85 (384) • United States 25 Apr 13

My granddaughter is in high school. Since a language is required, she is taking Sign Language instead of Spanish, French, or Latin. I think Sign Language is very practical. She can volunteer or she can get a job. She seems to be...

sign language

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Need to learn sign language

kokomo @kokomo (1866) • Philippines 21 Mar 13

Hi guys, How many of you here knows how to do the sign language? I need to learn sign language because I'll gonna meet my deaf and mute cousin soon. We already communicated before but through texts only. His English is not that...

communicate

sign language

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Sign Language

Harriet Steinberg @Happielady85 (384) • United States 3 Mar 13

My granddaughter who is inhigh school did not want to tske the usual languge that is required such as Spanish, Frnch,German or Latin. Instead she chose sign language which is also accepted as a language. in my cays we didn not...

foreign kanguage

sign language

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Baby Sign Language

Shavkat @Shavkat (141905) • Philippines 27 Aug 12

The normal child developmental milestone is so enjoyable to experience, especially if you are a keen observant. Whenever I see my adorable one year old niece, the mode of communication is through the "baby sign language". I...

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Should Autistic children learn Sign language?

kaysue4 @kaysue4 (951) • United States 2 Aug 11

I have done some reading and it said that some children with Autism can learn sign and when you talk and sign at the same time it will help increase their speech comprehension. Anyone else know more in this area or what are your...

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Parents of hearing impaired children, should they learn signing?

kaysue4 @kaysue4 (951) • United States 2 Aug 11

I have a 7 year old grand daughter and she is hearing and speech impaired and also Autistic. She goes to a special school that is for these issues and she is learning to use sign language. I get her every summer since she was 2...

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Have you seen any sign language videos? Each country's signs are different.

writersedge @writersedge (22563) • United States 29 Mar 10

I went online to try to refresh my memory about sign language. If you don't type in American Sign Language (ASL)or Signing Exact English (SEE)(they aren't the same), you can get some really different signs from a variety of...

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lip reading

other means of communication

see

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Deaf Missions

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 24 Mar 10

I was in another discussion and got to talking about our churches sign language choir. I think this is one the coolest things. We support deaf missions, have sign bible study and our sign choir. Does your church do anything for...

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Teaching babies and toddlers to sign

squaretile @squaretile (3778) • Singapore 27 Jan 10

I've been teaching my kid to sign since she was 9 months old and she can sign quite a few things now, including "please", "thank you", "duck", "star" and "sorry". She is 15 months old now and can say a few words, like Mama, papa,...

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