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Personally, I think Jasin misunderstood your statement and needs to reread it. You are right, that people that are unable to walk and are limping or in wheelchairs, elderly that have arthritis they are the ones entitled to the disabled parking spaces, not deaf people who can perfectly walk just...

I would love to know more about the visual vs. auditory verbal stuff. I love to understand how the deaf visual mind thinks so maybe you can elaborate more without getting too technical, or maybe put up links on studies. I just think the differences are so neat.

ASL is relatively new to me but I have known sign language for thirty years. I just grew up in old school when english sign was the way to go. I loved signing then and thirty years later I still do. So it's not a novelty. It is in my opinion the best form of communication, except I know we were...

Jillio: If you reread that particular sentence, the sun is hot, I mention the sun first,then the tree, then the person. Deaf do this alot in asl. In order for the sentence to make sense to them, they would never go out of sequence. We in english do it all the time, as Reba's story shows. It's...

well when the deaf have had to deal with people who are nasty and outright rude then I can understand why they would consider it rude but sometimes I think some deaf are too quick to get offended and maybe should find out what their motives for watching two people sign is before they jump down...

Personally, it doesn't bother me to have people watch me sign. I love signing and I think most people are curious. It's like when you see a cute animal you never saw before maybe at busch gardens or something. You look with wonderment and curiosity. Now some are rude and idiotic so I am not...

Oh ok so QQ just means question question. Got it thanks

watch them sign? I understand getting offended when they say something mean. But I bet quite a few are either curious or think signing is unique and cool. Like I think signing is ultra cool. I love it and easily sign in public not caring what others think. Of course I guess when I start talking...

Hi Interpretrator: What is QQ? is that two q's side by side? Is it a classifier? What does it represent?

Sorry but this question is for Reba. Here in florida st petersburg college has an interpreter program as well as ASL 1-4 as non credit. I don't necessarily care if I get the credit or not, it's cheaper by far. I just want to know if they thoroughly teach asl in the non credit courses the same as...

I think you can ease the transition of learning english grammar while still thinking in ASL at least sometimes without talking broken english. For instance, your sentence you think from big to small sun(big) tree(less big) topic sentence. You could say, "The sun, it is hot. A tree can protect...

My question is Reba, do they teach advanced ASL with all the nmg and classifiers the whole works with the non credit courses? Do they explain the linguistics?

That english sentence can be very well expressed in asl and not lose the meaning at all. That is where non manual markers come into play to put sense stress on the meaning. One might sign: "Compare others, she peabrain beat whoa!!" Now maybe you would express it another way but with the facialy...

Classifiers are cool. They represent things. For example to sign the boat docking on land and he got out and walked on, sign boat, twice then use left palm down use right hand shaped like the boat still and have come up on the left palm(which represents land).You just docked. Then use r hand...

Yes I have his videotape on classifiers. He is really good. His wife is involved in flrid.org. where you test for qa in florida. It was good info for beginners of ASL. Classifiers are hard to know how to use at times he gives good information.

When signing hearing persons thoughts to deaf friend say He/she says then sign. Then say to hearing person, he says ..... then when you want to pipe in slightly turn to deaf make eye contact and look quickly hearing person and talk same time as you are signing which is hard and they will be able...

I am hearing and I learned signed english when I was ten and through the years periodically socialized with the deaf. I learned alot of sign with The Joy of Signing book by Lottie Reikoff. That was back in the late 70's early 80's. I am a visual learner and so remembering a sign is so much...

I agree with the linguistic end of what perceiving the world different. visual vs aural. It does make a difference for sure which frustrates me to no end that I will never perceive the deaf world as deaf do as I desire to be able to. I want to sign like coda. I'd be happy with hoh status if I...

Jehovah's Witnesses have gone to great lengths to preach God's word to the deaf in their native language, whether it is asl, bsl, or or sign languages around the world. We have reached peoples all around the world who speak hundreds of different languages in over 235 countries and the deaf with...

Hey southern. I am hearing. I have difficulty with hearing conversations unless they are strong voices and I am nearby. Otherwise it is garbled but when I took a hearing test, I pass with flying colors. I had lots of ear infections as a kid and perforated my eardrum but I totally function...