Asl Experiences
Steven Tobias
American Sign Language
Prof. Chris
4/31/2013
Social Activity My social activity was also from home. I went to a graduation party that was for my friend who has deaf family members. So I sat there and was able to interact and ask about deaf culture for a good portion of the party. We played some of their games, which I have never played before. They were all fun and it was a great time. Now since there wasn’t much to that, I decided to go to another event. I went to a car wash that Harvest Bible Chapel was hosting. Now there were people who spoke as well as deaf people at this event, but it was great being able to come and see what all was going on. When a deaf person was trying to speak to someone who didn’t know sign language, they used creative ways to talk to them such as acting it out or spelling it on their hand. I thought this was really cool and that you don’t necessary have to know sign language to communicate with someone who is deaf. I did several other things such as hanging out with some of the youth. Only a few were deaf, but most of them knew sign language and it was cool to interact with people my age instead of adults and also to talk about things I like to talk about with people in sign language. I also got to see what it is kind of like being a student and deaf. That is an experience I will not have, but it is refreshing to see what we are blessed with, but we take it for granted everyday. This one girl says she always walks with friends because she does not hear people around her. So she can’t hear when there is someone yelling at her, or if there are cars coming at her, or if someone is walking behind her stalkerishly. She has friends to help her and to protect her. A few other students had similar stories. The videos they used in youth group had a guy in the corner of the video signing as the video was going on, instead of using subtitles. I thought this was interesting because instead of just reading the video,
American Sign Language
Prof. Chris
4/31/2013
Social Activity My social activity was also from home. I went to a graduation party that was for my friend who has deaf family members. So I sat there and was able to interact and ask about deaf culture for a good portion of the party. We played some of their games, which I have never played before. They were all fun and it was a great time. Now since there wasn’t much to that, I decided to go to another event. I went to a car wash that Harvest Bible Chapel was hosting. Now there were people who spoke as well as deaf people at this event, but it was great being able to come and see what all was going on. When a deaf person was trying to speak to someone who didn’t know sign language, they used creative ways to talk to them such as acting it out or spelling it on their hand. I thought this was really cool and that you don’t necessary have to know sign language to communicate with someone who is deaf. I did several other things such as hanging out with some of the youth. Only a few were deaf, but most of them knew sign language and it was cool to interact with people my age instead of adults and also to talk about things I like to talk about with people in sign language. I also got to see what it is kind of like being a student and deaf. That is an experience I will not have, but it is refreshing to see what we are blessed with, but we take it for granted everyday. This one girl says she always walks with friends because she does not hear people around her. So she can’t hear when there is someone yelling at her, or if there are cars coming at her, or if someone is walking behind her stalkerishly. She has friends to help her and to protect her. A few other students had similar stories. The videos they used in youth group had a guy in the corner of the video signing as the video was going on, instead of using subtitles. I thought this was interesting because instead of just reading the video,