welcome back to sequestered signing it
is week one day two
this week's theme is introductions and
yesterday you learned greetings today
you're gonna learn hearing status and
some other signs that will help you as
you are a new brand-new signer okay
so again as always the practice prompts
are at my or in my Instagram account
it's our show they'll be labeled bright
color week one day two ready for you to
go okay okay so be sure to head there
Friday we do live reviews here we go
so the first sign you will learn is
death so take your down hand in the one
handshape so you're gonna bring it here
to the side of your mouth and then you
tap it you arch it back to right in
front of your ear deaf deaf you will
also see this sign come from the ear to
the face right death or you can go deaf
now this sign was created in reference
to saying can't speak can't hear can't
hear can't speak even though that's not
true like there are deaf people that
speak a long time ago law many many
years ago people weren't politically
correct as we are now okay and deaf
people who were deaf were not allowed to
have education and a lot of other things
so there's a lot of history behind that
sign but it's still the sign we use okay
death so don't assume that it's true
if you you aren't able to cure you're
unable to speak okay
getting out of the way deaf forward or
deaf backwards both are correct
the next one is hearing the opposite of
death hearing so it's again your one
handshape places here in front of your
mouth and circle up and forward hearing
like this hearing hearing smaller circle
up and out it was like words coming out
of your mouth we never stop talking and
my palm is facing my mouth hearing
next one is hard of hearing these are
people that don't necessarily identify
as deaf that they don't identify as
hearing some people still call that
hearing impaired it's a hard topic to
discuss without really getting into a
lot of the political cultural societal
kind of discussions here some folks
prefer to be identified as
hard-of-hearing some folks prefer to be
identified as hearing impaired and in
the deaf community it's like we just
have a sign for hard-of-hearing the sign
for hearing impaired don't really use
but so hard of hearing it means if
somebody's hearing impaired or
hard-of-hearing you would use the same
sign unless there's a sign they would
prefer you for you to use so that being
said hard-of-hearing use your h
handshape or your u handshape here like
this and you go so I'm on my right side
I'm on my side just right here in front
of my arm hard-of-hearing and I go out a
tap once and I arch a little bit out to
my right if I'm left-handed I'm going
here and out to my left hard-of-hearing
okay hard of hearing all right now I
know that I made it really confusing for
you about the hearing impaired and
hard-of-hearing so if somebody goes no
I'm hearing impaired then you respect
honor that and you use the sign for
hearing impaired
many many years ago I was H I I'm not
sure a hundred percent if it is still
that because I haven't seen it in a long
long time
I'm sure if somebody you'll be corrected
so don't worry about it and it's not a
big deal sound like you're a terrible
human being
how dare you okay so don't stress about
that
the next sign profoundly deaf so this is
like there's there's like zero hearing
bupkis right so you're gonna put your
thumb in your ear like this and you go
and you open up into the five handshape
so it's not closed its open puff out
your cheeks okay and you just do the
twist one time profoundly deaf like zero
hearing in the ear because there's all
levels of hearing in somebody's ear they
could have percentage here percentage
here this tone this tone whatever okay
this is like there was zero tone zero
activity in the ears okay now I'm gonna
learn some phrases that you can use when
you're first learning to sign and you're
first talking signing with somebody okay
that will help you so first one is
please sign slow they'll know that
you're new and they'll start saying slow
automatically but if you really want to
make sure that they signed slow or
slower you can use this sign okay in
this price so please open be handshape
dominant hand them out fingers together
and place it on your chest circle this
way circle so left handed here right
handed here
please sign index fingers here palms are
facing each other
45-degree angles and it's an alternating
circle like you're riding a bike but
you're going back towards your body
instead of forward like a bike so you're
pedaling backwards okay start with your
dominant hand circle back they're not
big circles they're little circles okay
sign and slow so the whole phrase is
like this please sign slow okay slow
five handshapes duck non-dominant hand
here dumb hand goes on top and pulls
back okay now you can play with this
sign and go so you can show the slowness
that you
here we're just doing slow basic slow
you don't always have to sign this slow
to sign it all right
please sign slow if you want to
emphasize slowness or have fun or
exaggerated like oh my gosh
that woman was walking and I was behind
her she's like slow okay
the next one is I'm learning ASL so we
go ASL I learn so a SL ASL when you get
faster it's gonna be like this flick ASL
so my thumb swipes over and I flick out
to the L yes l but as you just go a s
we'll be going over the alphabets later
this week ASL I point yourself you know
the sign I learn so learn your
non-dominant hand is in the open B
handshape palm up this is representing
like a textbook I think of it as a book
full of information right your dominant
hand is in your five handshape place it
on here
alright now you're gonna suck and pull
all that information out of that book
and put it into your brain okay so
you're pulling it from the page boom and
you're putting it into your brain okay
so you start so my dominant hand is
going five pull into this flat o
handshape like that pull so 5 pull back
or pull up just showing you what the
hand is doing okay like that so it's
this motion but you're gonna place it
here at the side of your forehead boom
my finger my I just placed this a little
bit right here boom I don't place the
whole thing just that little nubbin
right there boom you're gonna see this a
lot shortened and it's brought right
here to the cheekbone as we do
sequestered signing I'll do my best to
make sure that I do the proper form of
it but really in the real world you're
gonna see it down here and lower so it's
really important that you become
familiar with it being down here because
that's where you're gonna see it the
most okay so all together ASL I learn
dude in that word order that's an order
yes I'll
if you want to say I don't understand
and you can also say I do understand so
say hey do you understand me yeah just
down alright
so understand is your index finger and
palm in and you're gonna do flick so I'm
doing this this is the side view this is
what I'm doing here palm facing me and I
have it here by my head if you have it
low it's a sign 11 so you need it here
by your head understand it's like the
light bulb going on right so if you do
understand you go yeah I understand you
would nod your head or look like yeah I
get it if you look cool if swell you're
signing that's then that's confusing if
you don't understand all you have to do
is like this shake your head and look
like you don't understand oh I'm so
confused right don't understand
so somebody's saying something to you no
I don't understand that okay it's okay
well I don't understand
please sign slow alright or you can say
I don't understand can you sign that
again so let's design again open b
handshape here flat b handshape so you
start with the open B and then you like
flatten your fingers so it looks like
that nice little 90-degree angle here
straight thumb out okay start here palm
up palm up and you're gonna flip it into
the center of your palm like that again
please sign it again oh yeah again again
okay okay so yeah one time alright just
one time again
another phrase you can ask is what does
that sign mean what is that sign
what does that sign so Oh somebody sighs
blue oh hold on that so you're gonna go
that so it's your white hand shape that
you want to point to whatever you move
that or you know point to them or
whatever but that sign you know this one
what what okay so your five hands palms
up and they're not like straight flat up
they're kind of like this bent casual
thing and you shake them side to side
but and then you're using your WH
question face what so furrow my eyebrows
lean my head forward okay and they can
say oh that's bottle of O blah blah oh
okay can you sign that again and then
you can copy it
alright so that's good way to learn
signs when you're signing with people
last one when you see like if you're in
public and you see somebody with a
hearing aid or cochlear implant it's
good etiquette to ask if they know sign
language before you start signing with
them they may not know it or maybe they
do but they prefer not to sign with you
so don't just like oh my gosh that
person looks like they might be deaf or
hard-of-hearing I'm just gonna go right
first you go you know you need to
practice the same etiquette you would
with any stranger in a public place
right um just because they have signs of
hearing loss doesn't give you the free
rein to just you know okay so you go you
know ASL you ask you know ASL and we're
running out of time so I got to do this
quick open B handshake place your
fingertips here on your forehead
again you will see it down here quite
often at the cheekbone just like learn
so no you know ASL raise your eyebrows
as you ask this question okay because
this is a yes/no question they can
answer it yes or they can answer no all
right and this is a proper way to make
too if you're introducing yourself just
a complete stranger you don't know if
they sign or not you need to ask before
you start signing all right so if you
don't know just or you wind it a little
bit and put our pause and play it again
until you master okay I will see you
tomorrow for day three week one and
we'll continue with our introductions
have a good day go to the practice
prompt don't forget that all right