Cute! A spelling bee by fingerspelling!!!

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Deaf students participate in 'fingerspelling' bee
April 30, 2004 (Springfield) — Twelve-year-old LaDale Williamson won a spelling bee today by getting the word "buffalo" right. But this wasn't a typical spelling bee.

Williamson is deaf, and the children in the spelling bee were using sign language.

It takes a little more work for deaf and hard of hearing students to participate in a spelling bee.

They must memorize the signs for each word -- something that can be tricky in a language where one sign can mean several things.

The children can't rely on a word's pronunciation for help because most of them have never heard the words aloud.

The contestants all work with their own presenters so they won't get the signs mixed up. Then the children use their fingers to spell out the words letter by letter.

About 25 students participated in the seventh annual bee, which was held in Springfield.
 
Nice!

Though I think it can be easy to memorize words by association. At least, it is for me.. visual associations. There are always ways.

Say, how does pronunciation help with remembering words? Always wondered about that! LOL
 
Liza said:
Nice!

Though I think it can be easy to memorize words by association. At least, it is for me.. visual associations. There are always ways.

Say, how does pronunciation help with remembering words? Always wondered about that! LOL
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That reminds me of a time I tricked my interpreter into spelling out a word for me in my English class in high school. The teacher was calling out the words and we had to spell them. There were a couple words that I got stuck with so I would be like, "Wait, what did you just say?" The most common response to this was to spell out the word so that the deaf student could understand what the interpreter recently said. In this case, she spelled out the words for me! Hehehe! Every time I did this to her, she'd be like... "Darn it! You got me!" and let out a nice chuckle. Heh!
 
VamPyroX said:
That reminds me of a time I tricked my interpreter into spelling out a word for me in my English class in high school. The teacher was calling out the words and we had to spell them. There were a couple words that I got stuck with so I would be like, "Wait, what did you just say?" The most common response to this was to spell out the word so that the deaf student could understand what the interpreter recently said. In this case, she spelled out the words for me! Hehehe! Every time I did this to her, she'd be like... "Darn it! You got me!" and let out a nice chuckle. Heh!
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ROTF! She sure got :Owned: (a nice opportunity to use this smiley, too)
 
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