Wednesday, October 29, 2008

everywhere a sign

About 28 million people are deaf and to the national association of the deaf, 10% of the U.S. populations need help with health services and more. To the students that are learning how to speak sign language they say it is very difficult, they give an advice “never give up”. Of course all other languages are complicated it’s because you are learning and starting to understand it, that is how sign language is too. Some teachers say it is very exciting to work with children because when you’re telling a story you become the character from the story. And sometimes it is sad telling people that they have cancer. The interpreters say that they’re hands don’t get tired but they’re brain gets tired from the conversation that lasts more than 20 minutes. And when a group is taking turns they say you’re never really off from the break you have to take. Most deaf people may sometimes think if they are really connected to the deaf community by their facial expressions. Katie Forstrom from New Jersey studying ASL says it will be fun for you to learn sign language and maybe complicated at first but it’s not the end of it.

1 Comments:

Blogger Miss L. said...

This article was assigned to my BMAS class. Good summary though!

October 30, 2008 at 1:29 PM  

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