Sign Language as a Visual Support for the Classroom

8/23/16 12:45p.m.and 2:00 D109 Jackie Hanson & Chrissy Cariveau

Introductions

• My Name is ___________, Nice to meet you.

Why learn the alphabet

• Basis of the language • Many words are finger spelled • Many signs and names use a hand shape

based on the letters. – Examp: Blue, address, class, bathroom, water…

Best ways to learn

• Practice, practice, practice • Practice in the car, while driving • While walking • In the mirror

Why learn or add signs to the educational day?

• Sign Language as a Visual Support for the classroom. Examp: line up, bathroom, break, drink, write, stop, outside

• User Friendly • Simple directions, support for following

directions. Examp: yes, no…

Learning Vocabulary

• What is important for you to learn? • If it’s important to you, you’re more likely to

learn it. • If you make a plan to use it in your everyday

world you’ll be more likely to remember it. • Look up and use a new sign each week. Maybe

something that your student is interested in or the class is using.

Common teacher directions

• Wait • Listen • Look • Open • Line up • Lunch • Recess • Quiet • Bathroom

want

• Start with "5" hand shapes. Palms up. Flat. Bring the hands back toward you and change them into "claw" shapes.

wait

• The sign for "wait" holds the hands up and off to the side a bit. Wiggle the fingers.

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Afraid/scared

with

• The sign for "WITH" is made by forming the letter "a" with both hands. Place both your hands together, palms facing. WITH / together:

who

• The sign for "who" as several variations.A good general variation is to place the tip of your thumb on your chin with your index finger extended. Bend your index finger twice. Memory aid: Imagine that the reason your finger is fluttering is because of the air that flows from your mouth when you say "who."

which

• Alternate holding up one "A" hand, and then the other.

Strategies for Teaching signs

– Repetition-Use it through out the day or week. – Use words that are important to the student – Sign chair as you are touching the chair(all nouns) – Find out what the student is interested in and use

that sign all week. – Look up a sign or 2 that goes with the class theme

for the day. Use it through out the day. – Teach it to all the students in the class or have the

student teach it to the class.

Sandwiching

• Show the sign • Fingerspell the sign, or the word, or point to

the object. • Show the sign again

Showing numeric order

• redirect students by letting them know first(point to thumb) we’ll do ______ then(move body and point to first finger)we’ll do ______.

• Or if you do ______ then we can do ________. Pointing on the fingers to indicate first and next gives a good visual for students.

Social Function Words

• more, please, thank you, hi/hello, bye-bye, again, sorry, uh-oh, yes/uh-huh/okay, no/uh-uh

Common Action Words (Verbs) Action is usually one time vrs Noun 2 times

• eat, drink, go, stop, run, jump, walk,

sleep/night-night, wash, kiss, open, close, push, pull, fix, broke, play, want, hug, love, hurt, tickle, give (”gimme”), all gone, all done, dance, help, fall, shake, see, watch, look, sit, stand (up), throw, catch, blow, cry, throw, swing, slide, climb, ride, rock, come (”C’mon”), color/draw

Descriptive Words (Adjectives/Adverbs)

• big, little, hot, cold, loud, quiet, yucky, icky,

scary, funny, silly, dirty, clean, gentle, wet, soft, fast, slow, color words (red, blue, yellow, green, pink, orange, purple, black, white, brown) and quantity words (all, none, more, some, rest, plus early number words - especially 1, 2, 3)

Location Words (Prepositions)

• up, down, in, out, off, on, here, there (Plus later ones such as around, under, behind, over)

Early Pronouns

• me, mine, my, I, you, it

List of the most common nouns: (Nouns like chair-2 times, Verb-sit-one time.)

• ball, book, choo-choo, train, bike, rain, bubbles, car, truck, boat, plane, baby, bowl, spoon, diaper, sock, shoe, shirt, pants, hat, star, flower, house, tree, brush, towel, bath, chair, table, bed, blanket, light, cookie, cracker, chip, cheese, apple, banana, ice cream, cereal (Cheerios/ “O’s”), candy, milk, juice, water, dog, cat, fish, bird, duck, cow, horse, bunny, bear, pig, lion, elephant, giraffe, zebra, monkey, chicken, butterfly, bee, frog, alligator, snake

Names for People

• Mama, Dada, brother and sister names, pet names, grandparents & other family members, and favorite characters such as Elmo, Dora, Diego, Elsa, Olaf, Mini Mouse etc…

Web Resources

• http://www.handspeak.com/

• http://lifeprint.com • http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/concepts.htm

• http://www.aslpro.com/functional_groups.html

• http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm

• http://teachmetotalk.com/2008/02/19/early-sign-language-vocabulary/print/

• http://teachmetotalk.com/2008/11/03/see-a-toddler-using-sign-language/ • http://www.cats.gatech.edu/mysignlink?sid=70094

SCRED

• Lending library – Can view ASL materials on the website – Look under: Bottom right corner of the web page-

Quick Links, Destiny lending Library

Thank you!