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Originally Posted by Reba
Do you mean the sign that uses an index finger at the mouth side, then both hands, "B" shape, palms down, make a "CLOSED" sign? I think that is an older version but maybe it's still popular by region.
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Yeah that is the one I had known since childhood. I don't know if it is a region sign, I am very curious about this, I'll try to remember to ask my friend sometime.
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Originally Posted by jillio
I've seen the EAR CLOSED sign used for "deaf" but infrequently, and only by older deaf, or people who have learned sign from a dictionary.  |
One of the teachers, probably my first grade teacher at the deaf school (TSD) taught us that sign in the early 1980's.