Basic sign language lecture

1. Speaking with our Hands:
Introduction to Basic Sign
Language
Ms. Kathryn M. Medina
Sped Teacher III, Philippine School for the Deaf
Level 4- Interpreter, PRID
PNASLI, Member

2. What is Deafness
 Deafness, hearing impairment, or hearing
loss is a partial or total inability to hear.
 Hearing loss exists when there is diminished
sensitivity to the sounds normally heard
 Deafness is defined as a degree of impairment
such that a person is unable to understand
speech even in the presence of amplification

3. Causes
 Age Syndrome
 Noise • Neurological
 Genetic disorders
 Multiple sclerosis
 Illness
 Stroke
 Measles
 Medication
 Meningitis
 Chemicals
 Mumps  Head trauma
• HIV/ AIDS
• Premature birth
• Fetal Alcohol

4. Level of Deafness
 . Hearing impairment may be ranked as mild,
moderate, moderately severe, severe or profound
as defined below:
 Mild:
 for adults: between 26 and 40 dB HL
 for children: between 20 and 40 dB HL
 Moderate: between 41 and 54 dB HL
 Moderately severe: between 55 and 70 dB HL
 Severe: between 71 and 90 dB HL
 Profound: 91 dB HL or greater
 Totally Deaf: Have no hearing at all.

5. Methods in Communicating with the
Deaf
 Communication methods for communicating with
deaf and hard of hearng people (and language
development) including:
 auditory verbal,
 cued speech,
 sign language, (ASL and /or FSL)
 signed exact english,
 speech therapy,
 speechreading/lipreading,
 and total communication.

6. What is Sign Language and how can
we use this to our Deaf students / Deaf
loved ones?
 We can use the following:
 American Sign Language
 Sign Exact English
 Filipino Sign Language

7. Things we have to remember in
signing
There are five distinct elements to correctly
using Sign Language . They are:
 Hand Shape
 Hand Position
 Hand Orientation
 Hand Movement
 Facial Expression

8. Let us start Basic Signing!!!

9. Lets Evaluate!

11. Now lets try another one!

12. Basic Sign Language
 God  Uncle
 People  Aunt
 Family  Cousins
 Father  Teacher
 Mother  Principal
 Brother  Classmates
 Sister
 Grandmother
 Grandfather

13.  Happy –glad-  Me  New
joy  She  Old
 Sad- lonely  He  always
 Alone  Strong  Beautiful
 Share  True  Handsome
 Get  Lean – depend  Sweet
 Love  Blue  Sour
 Learn  Red  Bitter
 Pray  Yellow
 Come  Green
 With  Violet
 Us  Pink
 I

14. Polite Greetings and Occasions
 Good Morning  Good bye
 Good Noon  Happy Birthday
 Good Afternoon  Merry Christmas
 Good evening  Happy New Year
 Good night  Happy Valentines
 Good day  Happy Halloween
 Thank you  I love you
 Welcome

15. Lets try to sign a song!

16. References
 Philippine Registry of Interpreter (PRID) Basic
Sign Language Manual
 Elements of American Sign Language |
Suite101 http://suite101.com/article/elements-of-
american-sign-language-
a108755#ixzz2H4dWgqPG
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deafness#Classificatio
n
 http://deafness.about.com/od/cuedspeech/Cued_
Speech.htm