Lounge for Deaf people and their allies

[starryeyes]

Originally Posted by DamonK

Errr... I will be having a conversation...signing...and a sign isn't recognized, so I look it up, and its BSL. Though I don't know a ton of it, the fact that they are randomly popping up, I wonder if I had some BSL when I was little and learning.

Interesting tidbit: the sign for disappoint in ASL is the same sign for cold in BSL.

Anyone else find that ironic?

That is interesting. I have no idea? I assume you were raised in the states, and I don't know anyone who can sign BSL fluently. ASL was derived from LSQ (French sign) so there isn't a connection there. I have no idea? Can you think of any of the signs you are using that are BSL?

[DamonK]

Originally Posted by starryeyes

That is interesting. I have no idea? I assume you were raised in the states, and I don't know anyone who can sign BSL fluently. ASL was derived from LSQ (French sign) so there isn't a connection there. I have no idea? Can you think of any of the signs you are using that are BSL?

Born and raised in Texas.

Ummmmmm.... I'm struggling to remember the ASL sign.

In BSL, the sign for wild is middle finger pointed in (think signing an 8 but not touching thumb). Both hands. Start at middle of chest. Go up and out. Left hand then right hand. Almost simultaneously. It will look similar to an upside down j if you were drawing the letter in the air.

I'm not positive of the ASL sign for wild.

[starryeyes]

Originally Posted by DamonK

Born and raised in Texas.

Ummmmmm.... I'm struggling to remember the ASL sign.

In BSL, the sign for wild is middle finger pointed in (think signing an 8 but not touching thumb). Both hands. Start at middle of chest. Go up and out. Left hand then right hand. Almost simultaneously. It will look similar to an upside down j if you were drawing the letter in the air.

I'm not positive of the ASL sign for wild.

WILD is a loan sign in ASL. So, it is fingerspelled but in a unique way (hard to explain in writing) BANK, STYLE and EARLY are other examples of loan signs.

Some people also sign crazy with a W for wild.

The sign you are describing is EXCITED in ASL. So, it works in certian contexts. Like, DOG MINE, EXCITED (my dog is wild!!!)

Hope that helps!

[DamonK]

Originally Posted by starryeyes

WILD is a loan sign in ASL. So, it is fingerspelled but in a unique way (hard to explain in writing) BANK, STYLE and EARLY are other examples of loan signs.

Some people also sign crazy with a W for wild.

The sign you are describing is EXCITED in ASL. So, it works in certian contexts. Like, DOG MINE, EXCITED (my dog is wild!!!)

Hope that helps!

Ohhhhhhhh! I knew I recognized it. Just had no idea what it meant in ASL.

Much help!

[starryeyes]

Originally Posted by DamonK

Ohhhhhhhh! I knew I recognized it. Just had no idea what it meant in ASL.

Much help!

No worries!! I have studied ASL linguistics for the past 10 years... Always happy to help

[WolfyOne]

My stepmom sent me an email about a phone for the hearing impaired and I found it to be quite an interesting phone and free to acquire by sending off the proper paperwork to this company. I'll leave the link for those that want to check it out...leave some feedback here and tell me what you think.

https://www.captioncall.com/captioncall

[nycfem]

I went with my school kids to see an interpreted Broadway performance of Annie today. It was such great fun!

[WolfyOne]

Originally Posted by nycfembbw

I went with my school kids to see an interpreted Broadway performance of Annie today. It was such great fun!

I often watch YouTubes that are in ASL and enjoy them even though I don't know ASL...someday, I will and will enjoy them even more then.

[nycfem]

Just watched this video tonight: What it's like to be Deaf. I recommend it.

[nycfem]

Here's a sweet youtube video of a young butch femme couple:

[curlyredhead]

Originally Posted by nycfembbw

Just watched this video tonight: What it's like to be Deaf. I recommend it.

Thanks for posting these videos, I watched them both. I must say I understand a lot of what was being talked about in this particular video. Now I am not deaf but I live in both hearing / deaf cultures. As I am getting older and I am losing my hearing steadily by the year. I am growing more and more frustrated in not being able to hear. It's a rude awakening for me, because a lot of what the deaf culture experiences on a daily basis I am starting to experience. I know what it's like to see closed caption for the first time, I think I saw it at a house I was baby sitting for at one point. I was a teenager, the mom was hard of hearing. But none of the TVs at my parents house had them, so the first tv I was around that did was in college due to the ADA laws for TVs to have them as of 1995. I need to learn to sign and really crack down on it because I think I am going to need it in the future.

[Scots_On_The_Rocks]

While I am not deaf, HOH or otherwise hearing-challenged; I work with non-verbal special needs children and also at one point was married to a woman with a deaf son, so through both experiences, I picked up enough sign language (ASL and ESL) to carry on intermediate level conversations. I find deaf culture quite interesting, so, figured I would pop in here and leave a few words, and hope to perhaps make some new connections with members of the community.

[cinnamongrrl]

Originally Posted by Scots_On_The_Rocks

While I am not deaf, HOH or otherwise hearing-challenged; I work with non-verbal special needs children and also at one point was married to a woman with a deaf son, so through both experiences, I picked up enough sign language (ASL and ESL) to carry on intermediate level conversations. I find deaf culture quite interesting, so, figured I would pop in here and leave a few words, and hope to perhaps make some new connections with members of the community.

That's an admirable profession!

I used to work with developmentally delayed adults. I have a VERY basic ASL vocabulary....I LOVE the sign for socks!

[Scots_On_The_Rocks]

Originally Posted by cinnamongrrl

That's an admirable profession!

I used to work with developmentally delayed adults. I have a VERY basic ASL vocabulary....I LOVE the sign for socks!

Thanks, it is definitely a difficult job some days. And others, it is a blast. I must add that I also work with other branches of special needs kids such as deaf and HOH as well as EBD (emotional behaviour disorders).

Which makes me think of when one of my EBD kiddos was doing their best to pick up sign from one of my deaf kiddos....and their signing penis instead of pink.

So yeah, trying to clear up that what was meant was "I like pink.", not "I like penis.", took several days and quite a few guffaws.

[cricket26]

http://issuu.com/clerccenter/docs/odyssey2013/1

[cricket26]

[The JD]

Has anyone checked out the captioning options at movies lately? Because of my hearing, I rarely go to movies, but that may well change (the movie attendance, not my hearing). Regal theaters have a deal with Sony, who has developed these nifty little "access glasses" that show the captions ON the glasses lens. They appear on the lower part of the lens, where you'd look if you have bifocal lens…which works out well, because I do. And since the glasses fit over prescription glasses, I can actually read it.

Attempts at making movies accessible for the deaf and hearing-impaired have not exactly been satisfying: Eight years ago or so, theaters started offering headphones that amplified sound. All of the sound. It left me feeling only slightly less frustrated, and did nothing to improve my movie attendance.

Later, I tried open captioned movies, where the captions are on the film and visible to all. But hearing movie-goers don't like seeing the captions, so this option wasn't available for every showing. And really, it wasn't such a great option. I found myself struggling to read the white text when the background was white, because the captioners hadn't bothered to make sure the text was always readable. For all I know, there could be brilliant dialogue in Julie and Julia that I just wasn't able to read. Then again, perhaps not.

And then there's Rear Window. What a joke. After picking up this plexiglass contraption in the lobby, lugging it into the theatre and placing the base into the cup-holder (because apparently deaf people do not get thirsty and don't need their cup-holder for any other purpose), the real fun begins. The name of the game is "See If You Can Catch the Reflection of the Captions on Your Teleprompter and Still See the Movie", and it's a surprisingly difficult game. The teleprompter-like plexiglass is on an adjustable metal stem that creaks and groans every time you adjust it…which is often. And the sound goes straight in to the base, and the drink-holder, and reverberates in my chair, and the chairs of those next to me. I don't have to hear to know this thing is loud and annoying.

Plus, the captions are pretty small, and red, and usually in the right-hand side; to read them, I'd often miss what was happening on the left side of the screen. I've tried to readjust my screen during the movie, but was met with the stares of hearing theatre patrons who thought I was adjusting my teleprompter so I could give my acceptance speech for World's Most Annoying Movie-Goer.

But now--thank the heavens-- there are Sony Access glasses. The text appears in Hulk Green- a safe bet that I'll see it against any background…even against the Hulk himself, since the captions are lighted. Yet they don't distract. And best of all, they appear in whatever direction I look. When conversation is bouncing back and forth among people on the screen, I'm no longer scurrying to read the captions off to the side, and try to place who is saying them. I can more naturally follow the action on the screen. I saw The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, where the action does a lot of bouncing back and forth, and the captions were right there where I needed them.

I did notice that I tend to tilt my head a lot, as the captions often appeared at a 30 degree angle to the screen. But that was easily remedied, and hardly Sony's fault.

It turns out these caption glasses are also available in 3D, to spare me the ridiculousness of having to wear 3 pairs of glasses. I'm thinking of going to see the new Hobbit movie in 3D this weekend just to try them out. I'm actually excited about going to see movies in the theaters again. This is big news.

[Rockinonahigh]

They found out when I was a baby I had hearing issues so I got aids as soon as I could even tho I took them out more than used them.I wen't to therapist for several years to learn to speak without stuttering or sluring words,it helped a fair amount but when i'm tired or in a hurry things run together.Reading was all so hard cause I have vision issues as well.The doctors finely agreed it was because of me being very much a premmie plus at that time they used pure oxygen to help me breath for a long time,this was in 1947 when they had no clue it caused problems.All this caused me all kinds of trouble in school from understanding the teachers to kids giving me a hard time because of my deafness.It was strongly suggested to mom I go to special ed class's but she wouldn't do it cause she really thought main streaming was better.What it did was make me a target for every bully in school,so finely I beat the crap out of one of them then I was in the office getting punished for it.I told her and the princeaple what was going on..nothing was done with the exception of the lecture of not fighting in school.Walk away they said,easyr said than done as we all know.I lip read well plus I started als but never finished.Life has been an adventure for sure both good and bad..I just wonder what would have happened if I had gotten the right kine of help when I needed it?To far down the road now to try new things.

[tiaras-and-books]

I took two years of college ASL just because I'd always been interested in it. I loved it, and secretly found it easier on my brain than spoken communication, even though it was a second language. Partway through my second year I was diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder. No wonder I feel like ASL conversations are a little easier for me - they ARE.
I joke often that if I could magically make everyone able to sign, or if that Google Glass project would work on developing captioning for everyday life, I'd have it made.

[nycfem]

I prefer signing to speaking too.

If you don't mind, could you describe more about what an auditory processing disorder is.

Originally Posted by tiaras-and-books

I took two years of college ASL just because I'd always been interested in it. I loved it, and secretly found it easier on my brain than spoken communication, even though it was a second language. Partway through my second year I was diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder. No wonder I feel like ASL conversations are a little easier for me - they ARE.
I joke often that if I could magically make everyone able to sign, or if that Google Glass project would work on developing captioning for everyday life, I'd have it made.