Name:
Directions: Please fill in all the blanks below by hand. Typed outlines will not be accepted.
Unit 1
1:1 Strategies for Learning ASL
● Do not use or your .
● Try to focus on the signer‟s rather than on individual signs.
● Two very important reasons to focus on the signer‟s face, not on their hands are:
1.) A lot of grammar is in the facial expressions
2.) It is considered to look away from the signer‟s face while they
are signing to you.
● Develop listening behaviors like nodding, responding with the signs, “huh?”, “wow”, or “really?”
Listeners have very active roles in signed conversations.
listening increases your comprehension skills and optimizes your learning.
1:2 Cardinal Numbers 1-10
● Cardinal numbers are used to tell or for .
● 1-5; your palm faces .
● 6-9; your palm faces . Tap fingers and thumb once or twice.
● For the number extend thumb upward and slightly rock hand back and forth.
1:3 Fingerspelling Names and First Letters
● In the Deaf community, you introduce yourself by your name.
● Avoid „bouncing‟ or „stamping‟ the letters as you spell; work on attaining a continuous
of one letter to the next.
● When fingerspelling, keep your elbow and your arm
.
● The is the visual space between your face and your listener‟s face.
● When you fingerspell to a person in front of you, keep your hand within the sightline in front of
your or slightly below.
● When you fingerspell to a person on either side of you, orient your
the person, and within the sightline.
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, ● When you sit and fingerspell to a person who is standing, to face the
listener within the sightline.
● A E I O S T M N are known as letters.
● Andrew Foster spent his life dedicated to improving education for Deaf people. A teacher,
pioneer, and missionary, his legacy lies on the many schools he opened in .
1:5 Convo 1- Beginning and Ending Conversations/ Maintaining Eye Contact
● ASL speakers ask questions using facial expressions, head movements, and pauses called
.
● To ask a wh-word question you:
○ furrow your together.
○ lean your forward slightly, without breaking eye contact with the
listener
○ hold the last which should be the wh-word sign, until your listener starts
to answer.
● The ASL grammar for asking a person their name is ? What should your
eyebrows be doing?
● You can get someone‟s attention by your dominant hand up and down or
them.
● A brief wave (left to right) or small salute are two examples of .
● Be sure to look at the signer‟s , even though you may feel you would
understand better if you could focus on their .
○ is conveyed with facial expressions.
1:6 Cardinal Numbers 11-15
● 11-12; palm faces in and fingers out from under thumb twice.
○ For number 12, keep extended fingers .
● 13-15; palm faces and move extended fingers twice.
○ Keep extended fingers .
1:7 Cultural: Ways of Communicating with Others
● Strategies that Deaf people might use to communicate with you:
2
, ○ Signing
○
○ Writing or typing
○ Third person / Hearing person
○ Lipreading or Speech. This strategy is
● Regardless of the strategy, the goal is always to .
● Let the Deaf person know that you .
○ Avoid or using without relaying
information in ASL.
○ Let the Deaf person set the .
1:8 Convo 2: Identify a Person
● When identifying a person, remember to:
○ State the person‟s .
■ Raise your and keep them raised until you
identifying the person.
○ Give a brief .
○ out the person and at that person at the
same time.
○ After the listener confirms they know who you‟re referring to, you
to “that‟s him/her.”
● Failure to nod may result in the signer description because they
assume that you don‟t know who they are referring to.
● It‟s to point in the signing environment.
● Pointing is used frequently as a sign to indicate others,
an or a location.
1:9 Inside, Above, and Below
● To describe the placement of a shape, name, number, or letter (inside, above, or below a shape)
follow this sequence:
○ Trace a symmetrical shape with both .
○ Use your index finger to indicate where to place or locate the .
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Directions: Please fill in all the blanks below by hand. Typed outlines will not be accepted.
Unit 1
1:1 Strategies for Learning ASL
● Do not use or your .
● Try to focus on the signer‟s rather than on individual signs.
● Two very important reasons to focus on the signer‟s face, not on their hands are:
1.) A lot of grammar is in the facial expressions
2.) It is considered to look away from the signer‟s face while they
are signing to you.
● Develop listening behaviors like nodding, responding with the signs, “huh?”, “wow”, or “really?”
Listeners have very active roles in signed conversations.
listening increases your comprehension skills and optimizes your learning.
1:2 Cardinal Numbers 1-10
● Cardinal numbers are used to tell or for .
● 1-5; your palm faces .
● 6-9; your palm faces . Tap fingers and thumb once or twice.
● For the number extend thumb upward and slightly rock hand back and forth.
1:3 Fingerspelling Names and First Letters
● In the Deaf community, you introduce yourself by your name.
● Avoid „bouncing‟ or „stamping‟ the letters as you spell; work on attaining a continuous
of one letter to the next.
● When fingerspelling, keep your elbow and your arm
.
● The is the visual space between your face and your listener‟s face.
● When you fingerspell to a person in front of you, keep your hand within the sightline in front of
your or slightly below.
● When you fingerspell to a person on either side of you, orient your
the person, and within the sightline.
1
, ● When you sit and fingerspell to a person who is standing, to face the
listener within the sightline.
● A E I O S T M N are known as letters.
● Andrew Foster spent his life dedicated to improving education for Deaf people. A teacher,
pioneer, and missionary, his legacy lies on the many schools he opened in .
1:5 Convo 1- Beginning and Ending Conversations/ Maintaining Eye Contact
● ASL speakers ask questions using facial expressions, head movements, and pauses called
.
● To ask a wh-word question you:
○ furrow your together.
○ lean your forward slightly, without breaking eye contact with the
listener
○ hold the last which should be the wh-word sign, until your listener starts
to answer.
● The ASL grammar for asking a person their name is ? What should your
eyebrows be doing?
● You can get someone‟s attention by your dominant hand up and down or
them.
● A brief wave (left to right) or small salute are two examples of .
● Be sure to look at the signer‟s , even though you may feel you would
understand better if you could focus on their .
○ is conveyed with facial expressions.
1:6 Cardinal Numbers 11-15
● 11-12; palm faces in and fingers out from under thumb twice.
○ For number 12, keep extended fingers .
● 13-15; palm faces and move extended fingers twice.
○ Keep extended fingers .
1:7 Cultural: Ways of Communicating with Others
● Strategies that Deaf people might use to communicate with you:
2
, ○ Signing
○
○ Writing or typing
○ Third person / Hearing person
○ Lipreading or Speech. This strategy is
● Regardless of the strategy, the goal is always to .
● Let the Deaf person know that you .
○ Avoid or using without relaying
information in ASL.
○ Let the Deaf person set the .
1:8 Convo 2: Identify a Person
● When identifying a person, remember to:
○ State the person‟s .
■ Raise your and keep them raised until you
identifying the person.
○ Give a brief .
○ out the person and at that person at the
same time.
○ After the listener confirms they know who you‟re referring to, you
to “that‟s him/her.”
● Failure to nod may result in the signer description because they
assume that you don‟t know who they are referring to.
● It‟s to point in the signing environment.
● Pointing is used frequently as a sign to indicate others,
an or a location.
1:9 Inside, Above, and Below
● To describe the placement of a shape, name, number, or letter (inside, above, or below a shape)
follow this sequence:
○ Trace a symmetrical shape with both .
○ Use your index finger to indicate where to place or locate the .
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