Left-Handed ASL

Thanx Bottesini, Berry, Karissa, Reba!
As a hearing man, I sometimes do not see much.
Do you know about French fingerspelling?
 
chuku222 said:
Thanx Bottesini, Berry, Karissa, Reba!
As a hearing man, I sometimes do not see much.
Do you know about French fingerspelling?
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Oh, forgot. You are new. I am also a hearing male -- Great great grandfather to a small tribe. No deaf in family but a couple of terps, some was terps, and everybody here knows a little and some are fluent.

My best friend when I was about 8 was a CODA and my daughter is The Terp in the county.
 
Terps? It took me second but I understood.
Yes, I am new.
Again...I just want to respect.
Some kids aren't diagnosed as deaf but they can't hear/read and are put in special education classrooms in the US.
Then I am told, "Teach them to read!".
I can't teach if I can't read.
It still goes back to being left-handed...or maybe not.
 
It shouldn't be a problem. The only thing different between left and right is... left and right.

Where the dominant signs are done with the right hand... is done with the left hand in left-handed signing.

I've had a left-handed interpreter before when I was a student at RIT. I didn't even notice it until she brought it up. I also had friends who were left-handed, but the same thing... didn't even notice.
 
chuku222 said:
Terps? It took me second but I understood.
Yes, I am new.
Again...I just want to respect.
Some kids aren't diagnosed as deaf but they can't hear/read and are put in special education classrooms in the US.
Then I am told, "Teach them to read!".
I can't teach if I can't read.
It still goes back to being left-handed...or maybe not.
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Sorry. Been so used to 'terps' 'deafies' and 'hearies' on here so long I sometimes forget they are not 'standard' English.

I had serious problems in school for being left handed. Problems that are fortunately against to laws now.
 
Thanx again.
This all helps me.

If I sign a "u" (or something like it) on my forehead
just in passing/greeting...
What would it mean to an ASL reader?
What would it mean to a non-ASL reader?
 
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