Why’d You Decide To Be An Interpreter?

Name Change

Guess what I did today!

Sources:

Name: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

Change: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

[Image ID: Name and Change in American Sign Language. Both signs start pink and end blue.

Name is two hands in H handshape palms facing signer. Dominant hand taps base hand at the fingers.

Change is both hands in X handshape crossed at the wrists. The hands rotate around each other to cross with the other arm in front.

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Snow

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for Snow in American Sign Language. Both hands in 5 handshape wiggle fingers as they move down. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent shades of blue in different stages of the sign. Background is white.

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[Video ID: in a Home Depot, a woman is looking at a sign that says “We speak your language” under that are speech bubbles with the languages their representatives speak. The camera cuts back to her signing “Where is American Sign Language. The camera pans across the speech bubbles, then back to her. “Always! Why leave ASL out? ASL is a Language too. ASL should be there and also, ASL is the third most used language in United States and ASL is not there.” End ID]

Posted by @signedwithheart (on Instagram):

American Sign Language (ASL) is a language too. Just because it’s not spoken doesn’t mean it’s not a true language. ASL is just as much a language as any other.

It’s time for all places (especially airlines, I’m looking at all of you) to include ASL in the list of languages. Please update your language options and include American Sign Language. Thank you.

**September is Deaf Awareness Month.**

Also, Fingerspelling 101 Course is on SALE for $20 for Deaf Awareness Month! Code: SEPT. More info below. 👇🏼👇🏼

Fingerspelling 101 Course is great for those who haven’t learned the alphabet yet or for those who have recently but need to practice. It’s a mini self-paced course that focuses on learning & practicing the alphabet. It will greatly help improve your fingerspelling receptivity and make learning sign language much easier! The link to sign up is in bio @signedwithheart.

I'm learning how to do websites in my Ed Tech class, so I made The Sign - Resource. It's a bunch of reasources for learning ASL and Deaf culture.

(Im afraid to talk to people online so im using anon HOWEVER)

If you want to find some places to meet Deaf/HoH people you gotta go to Facebook groups! I found this local group to me that meet like once or twice a month who were willing to allow someone who's learning in and I've been going since. Anyways I highly recommended checking local Facebook stuff. There's also some state led websites that people put their events on but you know how that is. I've been learning ASL for about a year now and the thing that made me grow the most is being in the middle of like 30 people signing. Scary but fun! Good luck finding people to chat with 💚

Hi! Thank you so much for your advice. I don't use Facebook but any help is always appreciated.

I have been looking around for months, but it seems my town lacks many things like that. 😮‍💨

I may just get Facebook just to join a group but who knows.

New

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for new in American Sign Language. Both hands in bent open B handshape. Dominant hand scrapes across the palm of the base hand and up following the curve of the hand. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent blue, purple, and pink in different stages of the sign. Background is transparent.

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Cow

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

[Image ID: Cow in American Sign Language. Both hands in Y handshape, thumbs touching temples and palms facing forward, then hand twists downwards. Hands are on a cow face. End ID]

The artist who made the first three graphics is Ann Silver

Deaf Art

Ann Silver

As a co-founding member of the historic Deaf Art Movement (DAM) of the 1960s that came before the Deaf View/Image Art movement(De’VIA)  in 1

The link has a bunch of her art following a short bio.

"As a co-founding member of the historic Deaf Art Movement (DAM) of the 1960s that came before the Deaf View/Image Art movement(De’VIA)  in 1989, I have fought for recognition, equality and social justice for the Deaf artist community — and have also advocated for the inclusion of Deaf Art in the museum/gallery world and in academia."

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Image 1:

Two crayon boxes. The one on the left is labeled the original Deaf Identity Crayons 1899. The crayons in the box are labeled: freak, deaf-mute, oralist, handicapped, hearing impaired, deaf and dumb, lipreader, and dummy. The right box is labeled Deaf Identity crayons 1999. The crayons are labeled: Deaf, signer, Hard of Hearing, Deaf American, late deafened, Deaf-Blind, seeing, CODA.

Image 2:

A graphic of a box in the style of Tide detergent. It has the slogan "If it's got to be sign language, it's got to be ASL" with the word's Deaf Pride larger in the middle in place of the tide logo. In the bottom right corner is the watermark Ann Silver.

Image 3:

A graphic of 5 cans of soup in the style of Campbell's Soup. Instead of "Campbell's", each can has the logo "Gallaudet's". The five flavors are:Deaf Studies, Deaf culture, ASL, Deaf Art/D'VIA, and Deaf History.

Image 4:

2 white, six-sided dice with numbers represented in ASL.

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Not my deaf art but they are so epic, I just had to share! 🤟😀👍

👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋

Sources: Google, Pinterest, Instagram

it's a little early for this but could we get a happy Halloween if you haven't already?

Sure, it's close enough

Halloween

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Halloween in American Sign Language. Both hands in bent B handshape rotate to cover the eyes. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent purple and orange. Eyes and fangs are purple.

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Fish

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Hand in open B handshape wiggles like a fish as it moves forward. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent blue, purple, and pink in different stages of the sign. Background is transparent.

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