Ch 16

Chapter 16 talks about finding other resources other than a college course to learn ASL. With the access that people have today, anyone could find ASL tapes, books, dictionaries, and other sorts of networking if they don’t mind spending a little money in order to learn ASL. N advantage with videotapes, DVDs, or any other type of visual way to learn from your own room/house, is that you as an individual can go at your own pace. “ASL is, of course, best learned in a company with a fluent signer” (115). Even if someone decided to learn from a video or interment, I still think they should try to find someone who knows some ASL. Interaction is the best way to learn. Without interaction more than likely he signs are going to be signed wrong.

               There are also many signs that have more than one way to sign it. Most signs are signed a certain way according to the regional location the signer is from. I my ASL class we learn one to two ways to sign some signs. When our class went to the Deaf Culture event at the First Baptist Church I learned even more ways to signs certain signs. The book offered a good suggestion that I think I am going to try in start doing. “What you can do is keep track of the variations you run into. You can make your own flashcards or a chart in your notebook with descriptions, diagrams, or code sketches” (117).

Works Cited

Morre, S. Matthew, and Linda Levitan. For Hearing People Only. 3rd Ed. Rochester, New York: MSM Productions, Ltd.,2003.Print.