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I’m a teacher and do a different bellringer each day and have fun names for them. I want to change Thursday because it isn’t ASL related (as of right now).

Music Monday- I show a video of a song someone is signing and my students have to guess the song and find a sign they don’t recognize and learn it.

Thinking Tuesday- I have a word of the week and they break it down into the five parameters

Which one Wednesday- at the beginning of the year my students write a would you rather and on Wednesdays throughout the year I draw one and have them pick which one

Throwback Thursday- HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ASL I WANT TO CHANGE IT. This was the typical I put something nostalgic on the board and they had to guess what it was. I want it to be sentence practice now so I need a word to mean like sentence practice. It’ll be different sentence types so PLEASE HELP!!

Fingerspelling Friday - I fingerspell 10 words and my students have to write them down. If you’ve made it this far give me some ideas on what they can do to practice production of fingerspelling.

Thank you all!!!

I'm learning ASL, and have a decent vocabulary, however I really struggle with reading signs. My mom suggested watching media with ASL, specifically the show switched at birth. That show isn't really my vibe and I was wondering if anyone knew of any other media (be it tv show or movie) with prominent ASL that I could use to try and improve my skills?

I’m hard of hearing and rarely wear my hearing aids (headaches). I’ve been learning ASL for 11 years myself on and off from bill vicars and about to take classes at Gallaudet in the near future but until then, I’m in the middle of nowhere and I was looking for deaf/hoh friends to immerse myself authentically and in general make friends. I’m in a rural area so it’s lonely and there’s no deaf events near me besides two hours away or more. I don’t know how to connect with anyone properly so suggestions are nice. I’ve tried a few apps and events for deaf/hoh etc but no luck. Thanks in advance!

Hello! I’ve posted on here a few times about more specific questions, but I’m curious, what’s something that hearing people/people new to sign often do that we should try to avoid?

I’m talking about anything- grammar, expressions, choice of signs, etc.

My (hearing) child just started kindergarten at a nice new charter school (literally its first year) and they use some ASL signs around the school (yes, no, toilet, etc.).

Unfortunately my child came home from school one day signing "water" using an F-hand instead of a W-hand. I could see how a child could make that mistake--both handshapes have three adjacent fingers extended. Kinda a "dyslexia on the hands" sort of mistake perhaps.

Anyway, I quickly corrected the sign, but my child said "No! This is how my teacher does it!" and reverted back to the F-shape.

Now, I have no way of knowing right now if the teacher is actually making the mistake, or if my child just saw it wrong. But given the similarity to the F-slur, do you think it's worth contacting the school just in case, to make sure teachers aren't teaching the wrong thing to dozens of children and making a massive faux pas?

If it's relevant, the way my child was trying to sign "water" was different from how I've seen the F-slur signed before. He was tapping the extended fingers to his chin, not the thumb/first finger. So it's not exactly the slur, but it was close enough that I figured I should ask here if it's an issue worth contacting the school about, or if I should just correct my child's signing quietly at home and not worry about the school.

hello all! I am a hearing person and i’ve been learning ASL for the past 4 and a half years. I use an app, ASL Bloom and was trying to help my friend learn some signs using the app. She is Indian (south asia) and wanted to learn how to say “Indian” I looked it up and it was using a “V” sign and sliding it across your cheek. We thought this looked a little like how someone would signify Native American face paint but were unsure. So can someone tell me if this sign for Indian is actually meaning “Native American”, “South Asian Indian” or like in english and can be used to mean both. If it’s not the sign for south asian indian, should i use “India person” or is there a different sign meaning south asian indian?
Sorry this is a weird one but any help would be great!

I'm a hearing writer but went to NTID and spent a lot of time interacting with Deaf people/ the community. I was just a part of a group where we listen to other people's stories and this one older woman had a moment where there was a little Deaf girl who's deafness is cured by some magical cookie. I tried to explain to the woman why this is offensive to the Deaf community and she just replies "well I talked to people with disabilities and they didn't have a problem with it". Is there something specific I can say that'll get it more through to her? Her story may be eligible for an award/ has already technically won one already and I don't want something so hurtful out there especially when it can so easily be changed

Hi! I'm high school students and I started an ASL club at our school this year.

Our school does not offer ASL classes, so most students at our school don’t know much about ASL.

For those who have been involved in ASL clubs or similar organizations, what activities have you enjoyed?

Do you have any ideas that would work well for high school students, especially for students who are beginners?

We’re having our first interest meeting next week!!

Thank youuu :)