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How to sign: preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)

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How to sign homework in American Sign Language

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This sign is done by signing "home" and then "work". However, in this instance "home" is signed by only pressing your hand on your face once instead of twice. After this, sign "work" by having your non-dominant hand in front of you with your palm orientation downward and your dominant hand tapping against your non-dominant hand 2 times.

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This is how you sign Homework in American Sign Language.

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To sign "Homework" in American Sign Language (ASL), you are going to make an O handshape, put it next to your mouth and then bring it up on top of your cheek and whack your non-dominant hand just once.

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WORK in sign language

Learn how to sign 'work' in American Sign Language (ASL). Also, watch how an ASL-speaking baby develops the ASL word in language acquisition.

ASL signs for 'work'

How do you say 'work' in ASL?

Meaning: a job or activity that you do regularly especially in order to earn money; the place where you do your job; activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.

Pronunciation/articulation: Dominant "S" (handshape), palm down (orientation), dominant wrist taps twice (movement) on the top of the passive or non-dominant "S" handshape.

" Work. -- Throw right "A" hand down against the left 'A' hand two or three times so that the lower side of right wrist strikes the top side of left wrist. (With both hands in position of 'A' throw wrists together.) Same sign followed by 'much' signifies 'busy'." (1910) Ref

Kids say the darndest thing

Kids say the darndest thing in sign language. Watch what three-year-old Juli says in ASL with a sense of humor.

Observe a couple of things in the video. At age 3, this child signed left-handed and one-handed while holding a spoon in her right hand, even though she was right-handed. Yet, it was still comprehensible. Perhaps it's an analog to vocally talking while munching.

At this age, children from baby to preschool age may sign comfortably with either hand, but over time, it usually forms into a dominant hand (mostly right-handed).

Another observation is that the child demonstrated a sense of humor! She teased her mother, joking about her father's different job.

Baby signing WORK in ASL

Watch the timelapse video (2015) of how the baby Juli acquires the ASL word WORK on the phonological level from babbling to word (sign) as how her language develops from one word to a sentence in a time lapse.

This baby began with the "5" handshape, one of a few unmarked handshapes. Then quickly evolved to "A" and finally "S", both also other two of the unmarked handshapes.

The baby's concept of work was probably generic in her observation based on these patterns: dad's wearing a firefighter uniform associated with being gone and then back; mom carrying a black workbag being gone and then back.

Psst... did you know that baby Juli's first babbling word was WORK? Not MILK. Nor MOM. Well, that's a long story. :D

Another "did you know that?" Studies show that babbling emerges at about 6-7 months in both speech and signing. Google neuroscientist Dr. Laura Petitto's work.

Another interesting thing is that the dominant condition shows in the baby Juli's WORK-based babbling. It means that one hand moves only as shown in a regular ASL sign, even the sign/word has the same handshape and movement in both hands, except for palm orientation.

Related signs: PROFESSION , CAREER , VOCATION , TRADE, LABOR .

"Choose a JOB you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." -- Confucius.

Word associations: WORKFORCE , WORKAHOLIC

Opposite: PLAY .

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National ASL Day is coming up. Here's how you can learn some sign language.

American Sign Language Day is April 15, and the hashtag #ASL has gained billions of views on social media since 2023.

What's spiked viewers' interest? The work of ASL interpreters has gone viral and gained popularity on the video app TikTok over the last year. Social media users have been impressed by the incredible rhythm and groove interpreters have demonstrated at concerts and performances.

A TikTok video posted by the NFL's account showing interpreter Justina Miles at Rihanna's 2023 halftime performance had more than 5 million likes.

"In general, social media draws attention to things that the public are not privy to in their everyday lives," said Cory Wys, an ASL expert and course advisor at Promova . "And ASL interpretation is one of those things right now."

As social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram continue to garner interest in ASL, plenty of people are looking to learn how to sign themselves. Here are some ways you can pick up a few signs this year.

A free course with Promova

On ASL Day, April 15, Promova is launching a free ASL course.

The course includes 12 lessons that cover the basics of ASL, according to a news release. It teaches greetings, expressing gratitude, asking for things and ordering food and drinks. The course also covers communication in emergency situations such as warning about fire or the need to call emergency services.

Discover Sign Language at DMACC

For $170, DMACC offers six weeks of access to an online ASL course with 24 hours worth of lessons.

The course teaches how to fingerspell the alphabet, sign colors, numbers, objects and family members, according to the DMACC website. The course is taught through silent videos to provide an imersion into the Deaf experience and offer a range of vocabulary to engage in meaningful conversations with members of the Deaf community.

Start ASL online

For $45 a month you can take online courses at Start ASL . The four-course system is fully online.

Bonus: The website currently has a 25% off sale with code Break25 until April 14.

Designed so you can learn at your own pace, Start ASL promotes that they won't just help you learn to sign, but how to communicate.

Online lessons through ASL Connect

Gallaudet University, a federally chartered university dedicated to education for the hard of hearing, offers a range of ASL classes and education, including for credit classes online or at its campus in Washington, D.C. It also offers free online vocabulary lessons through its ASL Connect program to help you learn some basics.

Victoria Reyna-Rodriguez is a general assignment reporter for the Register. Reach her at  [email protected]  or follow her on Twitter  @VictoriaReynaR .

Learn how to sign common words, phrases for National ASL Day

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - April 15 is National American Sign Language Day!

Blinn College offers courses in American Sign Language at both the Bryan and Brenham campuses.

Through the program, students gain a better understanding of deaf culture and American Sign Language grammatical structures in the United States. Students also learn to effectively utilize receptively and expressively skills in ASL to communicate with the deaf community.

Professor Robyn Marcak says learning ASL is important for both hearing and deaf people.

“Learning ASL helps promote language and culture amongst people. It helps the hearing and the deaf to be able to work together,” she said.

Marcak was born deaf to a hearing family, and is a mother to hearing children.

“They’ve always made sure that I’m included,” she said of her family. “My dad was in the military, so we moved often. I didn’t have any language before I was 15. I learned language while my dad was stationed in Japan. I had an amazing teacher there and she worked with me one-on-one for hours every day, 7 hours a day. That’s when I was able to develop language. When I came back to America, I was able to really take off with my education.”

You use more than just your hands to sign.

“ASL has facial expressions, body language. We have over 50 mouth morphemes, shapes of your mouth. We have a variety of sentence structures that help us convey meaning, instead of just having a blank expression, right? It’s really important because hearing people have their voice intonation, so you can tell between a question and a sentence, but in the deaf community, we have to include it all visually,” Marcak explained.

If you want to learn American Sign Language, you can take a course at Blinn College.

“I would love for them to sign up for classes. It would be awesome to learn sign language and about the culture as well. It’s really cool,” Marcak said.

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