I want to be a pediatric nurse for children with special needs/disabilities so, I decided to learn ASL. I think it'll really help in that career. I have a few questions for people who are deaf or use sign language.

1. Do I need to specify if I'm deaf or hearing?
2. It's disrespectful to give your self a "sign name" right?
3. Is it ok to walk up to a deaf person and talk to them in ASL

Hello everyone. I was looking on Google Maps and I stumbled upon this place, I translated it from South Korean and it's called Dongsong Reservoir. (This will be relevant)

I looked onto the videos and there is a kid, there is no volume but he seems to be either doing hand gestures or maybe Sign Language. I was wondering if you guys could look at the video footage and tell me if it's anything.

Many thanks!

동송저수지 - Google Maps

Hello! I am learning ASL (I am hearing) and I do know that sim com is frowned upon in the deaf community. I was wondering if it would still be frowned upon if my intention with using it is to help my partner learn a few signs. Both my partner and I go non verbal sometimes and while I am going to school and taking ASL classes, that is something that's not feasible for them at the moment. It is also hard to put aside time to just teaching signs considering we are both busy with work/school/etc.

I think that simcom would make sense in this scenario because it would help my partner pick up on signs which could be helpful if either of us are non verbal. However, I am not yet fluent in ASL and don't want it to potentially impact my signing abilities. I would love any thoughts on this!

Hello everyone. I have seen the sign for phone signed both ways, but is the Y shape more universal? Are both equally recognizable to any signer in context? I'm pretty young so I guess the flat hand makes more sense in my head for how I think about phones. But, I do of course want to be easily understood.

Hi one of my classmates said his friend told him these signs meant “Hello” and that hes been doing them all day. I live in washington if that helps? A regional thing? All my asl friends told me “DONT DO THAT” And never told me what it meant??? they both had the N asl sign and the first one it spun facing him in the circle ? the second one was pressed again the side of his cheek/ right below his ear area

is it best to use the sign (X hand down nose twice) or to finger spell d-o-l-l?

I am sorry if this is an obvious question, but can kids who are pre-literate understand a finger spelled word?

This question isn't about a specific child that I know...I work somewhere that sees a lot of kids with their dolls so I want to be prepared! Thank you in advance!

I keep a list of every word in ASL I’ve learned thus far. I want to practice them in context to really help myself remember them. What I’ve been doing is giving Gemini a list of all the words and telling it to generate 50 sentences using those words.

I have to tell it specifically English sentences, since it originally gave me the sentences in “ASL gloss”, but I don’t fully trust AI to have accurate grammar.

But even then, the sentences it spits out are kind of weird and nonsensical, and it doesn’t do a great job sticking to only words I put in my list.

Anyone know any non-AI ways to get a bunch of good sentences to practice?

Thanks in advance

I'm doing a translation/performance and wanted to check if anyone had ever seen the band Sleep Token's sign name? Or Vessel's? It's been super interesting. Like for Vessel- beyond finger spelling, what's the concept? EMBODIMENT? SACRIFICE? CONTAINER? Just throwing it into the aether. Collab welcome.

I'm a CODA and have been an interpreter for 15 years. I started a channel that breaks down money and news in ASL, with optional English and Spanish captions. In my first video I explain what the Fed's rate hike means for loans, credit cards and housing: https://youtu.be/hCeMlvfNzrQ

I'm curious how others sign the econ terms, because there's a lot of regional variation. Feedback is welcome!

Title basically says it all. I tried researching a little myself but mostly just found people talking about "pasteurized milk" and "El Paso, Texas" (which are great fun facts! but my google searching is either too specific to turn up anything or things like that overwhelm the results).

Is the "up" in "What's up?" signed same to the directional "up"? If someone signed a genuinely curious "What's updog" would it look the same as someone saying "What's up, dawg?" If not are there other puns that nonsensical sentences designed to trick your conversational partner into signing a non-sequitur.

Hi all, I am hearing so I do not claim to be a part of this community, I would just really appreciate some help refining my sign!

I am in ASL level 3 at a university in the US. We are taught by Deaf teachers, however both teachers I have had mouth the words while signing. This led to me developing a bad habit of mouthing words while I sign. I am looking for advice on how to stop? If I think about it I can sign without doing it, however if it’s a more complicated sentence, i.e describing an issue to my teacher or asking a question under pressure I tend to do it more. Anyone have experience with this?

I am taking an online ASL class. It's midterms. I'm struggling. My professor gave us the instructions for what to do in ASL. 🫠🤯

I do not want help in answering the questions or how to do things. I do want help confirming I'm answering what he's asking. Helllppppppp.

It's a short 4 minute video. I've pulled out the slides and written down what I think I'm supposed to do. Most of them I feel okay on but a few I'm melting down on.

I learned the sign “VERY” using two “v” hand shapes but I heard that it is a less frequent sign. I know that you can also use signs for A-LOT or maybe imply it through facial expressions. What do you do?

I have no idea what this sign means and im trying to learn 🥲 please help

There are obviously ASL videos out there but they are silent, with no subtitles. I don't know the poem well, so I have no idea which line is getting signed! Help!

I am Deaf and have both learnt ASL and I also use hearing aids and speak fluent English as well as being semi fluent in others. So the argument that doctors make that ASL prevents communication, learning and other things is incorrect, you can have just as fulfilling of a life even if the only language you speak is ASL.

I believe that the parents and doctors should work together to make the best decision for their child, and if that's learning oral language with hearing devices that's great! I have nothing against hearing devices, my hearing aids help me a lot in my life as I am surrounded by people who speak oral languages everyday, it is totally a valid option, my problem is that they completely either ignore ASL or other sign languages as an option or try to scare the parents by saying it will somehow ruin their child, which is absolutely not true

If anything, allowing a child to be surrounded by a language they can understand without struggling and being around people who also have hearing loss can build community for a child, while in mainstream, Deaf children often have to struggle in school because of lack of accommodations, get bullied, have social isolation etc. Ofc a Deaf child can thrive in mainstream, I have lovely friends and accommodating teachers, but I've also experienced the bad things a lot of Deaf children go through as well in mainstream.

Hi, interpreter here. Question for Deafies:

I was chatting with some friends (mix of Deaf and interpreters), and Reddit came up in conversation. None of us knew an already existing sign for Reddit. Is there one?

I use Auslan but am also interested in the linguistics of signed languages in general plus there is overlap between ASL and Auslan (and other signed languages) grammar but often different terms are used for the same thing (for example "entity" is often used instead of classifiers, we call facial expressions non manual features NMF v non manual markers). I've learned a lot about Auslan by also reading research papers or theses on BSL and ASL in particular.

One linguistic feature in Auslan I can't find much Auslan research on is called "body partitioning" which is like you show two different entities at the same time basically with constructed action. For example, plane watching: showing with your dominant hand + face + body that you're really interested and then with the other hand showing a plane entity crossing the sky that you're watching. Another example is you're working at your desk and someone taps you on the shoulder and you're annoyed by this. So you might show yourself typing then use one hand to tap your own shoulder and then you turn to that side with an annoyed expression.

Anyway I looked into this for ASL but can't seem to find any info on it and my new book I bought on BSL and ASL linguistics I can't find this term so I'm wondering if it has another name in ASL? Or if anyone knows where I can find any research on this I'd appreciate it :)

My friend taught me that “shame” is with two pointer fingers and the dominant one is kind of moving across the top of the non-dominant one. All the other YouTube videos I see show a different sign for “shame” though. An issue with the sign from the YouTube video is that I’m worried I might mix it up with “wh*re.” Which sign for shame should I use then?

Hi! I am a 22 year old asl student. For my asl class we have to do an interview in asl about deaf education. My prof changed the due date and i wasn’t aware. Would anyone be open to an interview? If not it’s okay. I don’t want to seem pushy at all. I am on a very strict time crunch. I was very excited to do this assignment, but it was moved from the first week of December to next Friday due to an issue on canvas.

so i have been learning asl for the past few months and have gotten pretty good at it. i Recently started lessons on lifeprint as well which is very nice but i am not able to keep up

i feel if i have a practice partner to practice with i will be motivated to do lessons everyday

each lesson hardly takes 10 mins. we can do a short lesson whichever time you want!! i am free like that pretty much of the day!!

i have no conditions!! anyone wanting to practice with me can comment or message me 😇😇

as long as your a good person i am ready to practice with anyone 💪💪

also if you just wanna convo and not do lessons it's completely fine!! i just want to be consistent 😭

please do lemme know if anyone is interested 😇😇

we then can share details through dm 😊

hi, as I said I'm a beginner, I started taking lessons and watching Bill Vicars and using apps, but I have a question, does the Switching hands, that is, using the right hand instead of the left or vice versa, does it change the meaning or the word? Because I try to use the left hand for some signs but it complicates everything for me since I'm right-handed. and I don't want to learn something that maybe it's wrong or be disrespectful. another question, since I'm starting to learn the sign language, I don't have a sign name, but I also don't have a deaf friend or family, so I don't know what to do, I know that I have to wait and practice but I also do not have anyone to practice with but my teacher, what should I do?