[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT Sign Language
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:17:41 -0400
My name sign, is the letter S coming from my eyes straight out about six
inches, smile.
Smile.
Name signs are unique.
Shelley L. Rhodes M.A., VRT, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Alumni Association Board
www.guidedogs.com
More than Any other time, When i hold a beloved book in my hand, my
limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
- Helen Keller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:31 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT Sign Language
>Sue and Laura, I took a class in sign language about 15 years
>ago. There is even a Braille book to teach blind people how to sign
>correctly. I was in a training center with both deaf and blind
>adult students, and I wanted to bridge the gap between our
>cultures. From what I understand, ASL sign language is like reading
>grade 2 or even grade 3 Braille. ASL uses letters, gestures, and
>symbols to represent entire words or phrases. The deaf people I
>worked with gave me a sign for my name. It's the letter m that
>drops from my chin to where my heart is. They said it was a symbol
>that shows that I try to talk with them and kept my heart open to them.
>ASL has a looser flow of hand movements. It also does not use
>standard English grammar as the English sign Language does. For
>example, in ESL you would say "John is going to the store to buy a
>book." In ASL, John has a symbol or gesture that his friends have
>given him, sort of like a nickname. They would make the sign for
>John, and the grammar would be something like, "John goes store
>book." I think ASL is faster to do, and that is a major
>advantage. I would guess that its disadvantage is that its grammar
>structure leaves some room for misunderstanding about the tense of verbs.
Until I met the people at the training center, I had no idea of how
being deaf can isolate people, making basic communication
difficult. I begged the training center's director to let us put a
computer with Jaws in the lounge so we could at least type back and
forth to get to know each other. He refused, and it is still one of
my deepest regrets that I could not get to know my neighbors beyond
the surface. I know for sure that two of them were wonderful people
and that we could have had a deep, rich friendship if we'd been able
to really communicate.
>
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today!" Will Rogers
Monica Willyard, rhyami@xxxxxxxxx
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