Category Archives: Sign Language

Would it be more useful to learn Spanish or Sign Language?

I would like to have a career in healthcare. I am currently in college and have to take four semesters of a foreign language. I took spanish in high school and had a hard time with it because I can’t roll my R’s. Would it be more useful to learn sign language? Or should I […]

Signs of Service: Master “sign Language” to Communicate With your Customers

I was visiting a client for the first time, the Union Sanitary District, 40 miles from my office in the San Francisco Bay Area, in an industrial part of Union City, bounded by swampland and factories. But I was far from lost. – As I exited the freeway onto a major thoroughfare, a […]

How is ASL different from regular english text and speech?

I am a hearingperson, who has taken some sign language courses, buthavebeen told that ASL is different from exact english. How is this? I would like to develop my ASL, because I know alot of people who speak it. Is there any way anyone could translate a few sentences into ASL so we can understand […]

Four Ways You Can Learn the Spanish Language

Spanish is a language that is widely spoken around the world. And in today’s global marketplace, many people are realizing why it is imperative they learn the Spanish language. It would help them greatly in their personal and business dealings. If you want to learn the Spanish language, you need to be aware that […]

From Dumb Gringo to Able Traveller Thanks to Language School

27.01.06 By James Frankham New Zealand Herald My world is mute. Conversations, signs and words cannot find their way into my simple, Spanish-less existence. I decide to embark on Spanish lessons. I know a smattering of German, a handful of French, enough Farsi to get me into trouble, and Papua New Guinea Pidgin as […]

2.5 year old Reading/ baby sign language graduate!

www.mysmarthands.com http Fireese was a signing baby and is now a signing toddler. Fireese has learned how to sign the alphabet. Some letters are a little tricky but she is good for an almost 2 and a half year old girl. For more info and videos visit: www.mysmarthands.com Joinour baby sign language FACEBOOK group where […]

Activities For Hearing Impaired Children – How To Pick Up Learning Skills And Keep Up With Society

Activities For Hearing Impaired Children Some children reside with a disability on birth while others can become disabled in the wake of an illness or accident. Disabilities can be permanent or temporary. After an accident or illness it can arise such a a person can not walk, see or hear for a period of […]

What’s the easiest, and fastest way for me to learn sign language?

I have several co-workers who are deaf, and I want to be able to learn sign language so that I can make it easier for them to understand what I say better. How can I go about doing that in the fastest/ easiest way? The correct way too. Oh! And is it hard to learn? […]

Do you think sign language should be taught in schools as a foreign language option?

I am actually pretty angry that sign language isn’t taught in schools. We learned the sign language alphabet when I was in 3rd grade but that’s all. It was not offered in high school or in my college. Now I have a health care profession and we come across deaf people all the time and […]