Sign Language

 

I found these cute kids playing at Billy Bear's Playground

This guy comes from ASL Free Download

ADCO Hearing Products has lots of figurines doing the "ILY" sign.

I found these cute little guys at the Animation Factory.

 

Visit this section of our website for Handmade Glass Art Beads & Resources, Cross Stitch Patterns, Machine Embroidery Patterns, Backgrounds, and other fun stuff relating to Sign Language.

I just finished working on a PowerPoint presentation of the ASL Fingerspelling Alphabet. I thought this was for someone who was going to use it as a teaching tool, but it turns out it was a homework assignment. I've done my share of homework, so please don't ask me to do yours! The only person you're cheating is yourself. So, now that I've spent the time to create this resource, I'll share it with all of you. If you want a copy of the program, right click on the underlined text in this paragraph and select "Save Target As". This file is password protected so when you try to open it and it prompts for the password, just click on the 'Read Only' button.

By popular demand, we've just put together an ASL fingerspelling graphic that you can download and print onto blank business card stock (available at your nearest office supply store).

ASL, SEE, PSL, Signed English...If all those initials confuse you, or you've heard about them but just don't really understand how they differ, this is a very good explanation that was sent to me: ASL, SEE Sign, and Signed English. 

Check out our page on Improving Signing Skills.

A visitor to this web site wanted some cards that she could pass out to family and friends that listed a few ways in which they could play a part in helping the child's language skills to grow. Together we came up with a card, and now we're making it available to you. It's in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format so if you don't have the free Adobe Acrobat reader, get it here.  Version for children who need visual information. If someone would like to help me do a version for children who communicate with sign language, it would be much appreciated.

Simplicity Patterns used to offer Quilt Block Pattern # 9534 that offers a hand with a heart in the palm. With very little modification, this pattern could be converted to an ILY handshape. Click on the pattern for an enlarged view.

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Links to other pages with information about Sign Language:

• A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms

• American Annals of the Deaf - the education of deaf students and information for professionals associated with the educational development of these students

• American Sign Language as a Foreign Language. ERIC Digest

• American Sign Language Browser

• American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project

• ASL - Information, Flashcards, and Printouts from EnchantedLearning.com.

• ASL Access - a 100% volunteer, non-profit organization providing American Sign Language video resources to libraries.

• ASL Activities, Books, & Teaching Materials for Students of All Ages

• ASL Class Presents Songs of Christmas

• ASL Fonts

• ASLInfo.com

• ASLPro.com - I think this one is my favorite ASL Video Dictionary Site. Not only does it have your standard stuff, it also has Religious Signs, ASL for Babies, Conversational Phrases, and a Quiz.

• ASL Resources

• ASL Singles - Where Signing Singles Meet

• ASL University

• ASL Videos

• Bilingual/Bicultural Resources-Info To Go, Gallaudet University

• BSL Animated Alphabet

• CODA: Children of Deaf Adults

• Colleges & Universities Offering Degrees in Deaf-Related Majors 

• Critical Period For Acquiring Non-Verbal Language

• DeafArt Club

• Digital Canada Online

• Deaf Community Web Links

• Deaf Culture & Sign Languages of the Global Village

• Deaf Oriented Magazines and Newsletters

• Deaf Related Graphics from Calvary Lutheran Church for the Deaf

• Deaf Resource Library

• Educating Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Bilingual-Bicultural Education. ERIC Digest

• Educating Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: English-Based Sign Systems. ERIC Digest

• Educating Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Residential Life, ASL, and Deaf Culture. ERIC Digest

• Educating Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Total Communication. ERIC Digest

• Fingerspelling Blocks - When I saw these, I was very impressed with them. Not only is it a great idea, but the product I saw was very high quality and nicely done.

• Foreign Language Requirement? Why Not American Sign Language? ERIC Digests

• Gallaudet University

• German Sign Language

• Grammaticization of Indexic Signs: How American Sign Language Expresses Numerosity

• Hands On - a New York based service organization dedicated to providing greater accessibility to arts and cultural events for the Deaf and hard of hearing community.

• Handspeak - Approximately 2,800 signs...and still growing. 

• History of Deaf Holocaust Victims

• ILY - ascii art

• Institute for Disabilities Research and Training - Paws Signs Stories CD-ROM for children, ages 3 to 7, in American Sign Language - American Sign Language CD-ROM - Con-SIGN-tration.

• International Bibliography of Sign Language

• Japanese Sign Language

• Justice Department Distributes New Tool for Hospital's to Better Communicate with Patients Who are Deaf - This is from July, 2000.
• Katie Did & the Neon Peach - Coloring pages, including one of the Finger Alphabet.

• Kids of Deaf Adults (KODA)

• Koko - Koko is a gorilla who communicates using ASL. 

• Language in the Deaf World

• Magnetic Poetry - Sign Language Kit

• Medical American Sign Language Phrasebook

• Mudra - Sign-Language CD-ROM

• MyBabyCanTalk.com - The premier resource center on the Internet for babies and signing featuring detailed tutorials, background research, and a video dictionary with more than 200 ASL signs that are most important to and appropriate for babies and toddlers. 

• National Deaf Academy - A unique residential treatment facility in Florida for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children, adolescents and adults.

• New Tool for Hospitals Improves Communication with Patients Who are Deaf

• The Norwegian Manual Alphabet Page

• Personal Communicator CD-ROM

• Read ANY Text As If It Were Being Finger Spelled

• Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf

• S.E.E. Center

• Shala's Beadworks has a ILY Box you can print out and make.

• Shared Reading, Shared Success - How to read to a child who uses ASL.

• Shasta's Shack - Very nice site with some original fingerspelling graphics as well as a fairly extensive signing dictionary.

• SIGNhear Communication Center

• SignStream -  a database tool for analysis of linguistic data captured on video.

• Sign Writing Site - Read, write and type signed languages

• Sign Zone

• Silent Night: American Sign Language

• Simplified Sign System - Developed for those individuals whose physical or cognitive situation limits their ability to use traditional sign languages.

• States That Recognize American Sign Language as a Foreign Language - from NICD

• Stefan's Florilegium: SCA specific sign language

• Stefan's Florilegium: Use of sign language in the SCA and in period

• Swedish Sign Language

• Teaching ASL as a Second Language. ERIC Digest.

• Teen’s ‘Translator Glove’ Lends Hearing-Impaired Students a Hand

• The Sign Zone

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