Quick sign language question

[Texan Mouseketeer]

What is the sign when you hold your hand out flat and point to your palm with the index finger of your other hand?

(My DD is learning sign language at school and we can't find this one!)

Thanks!!!

 

[DisneyPhD]

Show, I think. (if I have your imagery right.) If you tapp your finnger up and down it can mean owe (like you owe me money.)

Also it is the baby sign for cookie. Cookie is actually your dominant hand in a claw shap on your other hand and make a cookie stamping movement. However babies can so they tend to do it that.

My DD used it as more for a while, but is starting to use the actual sign.

Let me see if I can find some good web sites for you. I was fulent in ASL and used if for work, but I have been at home for over a year and getting a little rustly. I need to get back at it. I need ot take a test so I can do some part time work as an interepter.

Good luck. Let me know if I can help with anything else.

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

That would be great, thanks! The sites I went to wouldn't show you the signs unless you bought something.
They send home pictures of what they are learning for the week and I save them all, but I hadn't seen that one.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Here is some sites for you.

http://www.handspeak.com/ I haven't tried it much but it looks good.

My favorite childs DVD series is http://www.signingtime.com/

Signing time with Alex and Lena. It is produced by a mother who was a singer and then found out her DD was deaf. The DD and a cousin sign it it and it is so cute. The mother signs and sings a sound she wrote about wanting to understand her child and it makes me cry evey time. I just love it.

http://www.lifeprint.com/ looks interesting too.

I am searching for one from Gaulldet Universtiy, but haven't got it yet.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Maybe it's the sign for "what". Although I think that means brushing the finger down your palm.....

 

[DisneyPhD]

Maybe it's the sign for "what". Although I think that means brushing the finger down your palm.....

Yes, what is like drawing a line across your finger from between your thumb and pointer finger and down to the other end of your hand. What can also be both hands up plam up open and "shake" them back and forth.

The same handshape in differnt oriantions can be a different sign. For example "show is normally plam up facing out (like your) and your finger on it. Owe is plam facing up like you are pointing to money in your hand.

 

[DisneyPhD]

I am likeing the life print site. It looks pretty good

Is it this sign?


http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/s/show.htm

 

[Talking Hands]

The sign you are describing is used for that or it. You would look at your palm at the same time.
The same thing with the palm facing to the right or left depending on your nondominate hand is show. This is a directional verb and can be moved toward the person you are showing it to ie SHOW-ME, SHOW-HER
What is the nondominate palm flat with the index finger of the dominate hand sweeping across the palm from the thumb down.
What you are describing can also be used for owe.
Ask the teacher what she is using it for.
a good site to see the signs is http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm .
You do not need to pay to use this site.
Also a good resource is the handshpe dictionary which can be bought at a bookstore. It shows the signs by handshape so you can flip through that section and find the picture and see the English concept.

 

[DisneyPhD]

The sign you are describing is used for that or it. You would look at your palm at the same time.
The same thing with the palm facing to the right or left depending on your nondominate hand is show. This is a directional verb and can be moved toward the person you are showing it to ie SHOW-ME, SHOW-HER
What is the nondominate palm flat with the index finger of the dominate hand sweeping across the palm from the thumb down.
What you are describing can also be used for owe.
Ask the teacher what she is using it for.
a good site to see the signs is http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm .
You do not need to pay to use this site.
Also a good resource is the handshpe dictionary which can be bought at a bookstore. It shows the signs by handshape so you can flip through that section and find the picture and see the English concept.

Hi talking hands, I was wondering if you would be around.

When I do "that" I use the "y" hand shape for it, not the pointer finger. "It" the little finger (as in i) but I don't tend to use the sign for it ever since it is signed english.

Signs can differ from different regains or areas, or there are a number of varations of signs, a few different ways to do the same sign.

I like the web site, thanks for the link. Since it is a Michigan State one I most likely know people who run it (but I have been out of the loop for a few years.)

I like the Galludet survail hand book, small cheap and pretty good.

 

[Talking Hands]

The "Y" handshape for that is used more for concepts that actual objects. IE: talking about condiments (has no sign) and signing, ketchup, mayo, mustard. THAT
Objects you would point at the actual object or to the hand.
Problem in ASL is that signs are not words but concepts and ideas so you have to use the sign for what you are meaning.
IE: GIRL SHE PRETTY SHE would be spoken That girl is pretty.

Gallaudet Survival Handbook is far too basic for me at this point. I use the Sternberg ASL dictionary as well as the Handshape Dictionary. Right now my ASL and deaf studies books fill an entire bookcase in my family room. Videos fill another small bookcase.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Gallaudet Survival Handbook is far too basic for me at this point. I use the Sternberg ASL dictionary as well as the Handshape Dictionary. Right now my ASL and deaf studies books fill an entire bookcase in my family room. Videos fill another small bookcase.

Yes, I know what you mean. However I always refer the Gallaudet Survival handbook because for people who want to learn some ASL. It is easy to find, under $7 small and good ASL. (not signed english.) I was just cleaning out or office and finding books from my old job and school.

I still think in Texan Mouseketeer case the sign she is talking about is most likely not that because they are begaining learners and that is is more conceptual use and grammer (as you pointed out.) It is more likely a single sign.

In the site you have listed it has "that" with the y handshape.

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

I am likeing the life print site. It looks pretty good

Is it this sign?


http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/s/show.htm

Close, but she had her palm flat out. But, with her being 15 months, she may not have it quite right! She does the one for Daddy a lot...

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

Thanks everyone, this has been very interesting! We'd been trying signs with her before, but she had never really started doing them until this weekend, so we're excited that she's starting to use them! I've been checking out these sites and I'll be sure to ask her teacher on Monday what she means. My son never responded to this when we tried it with him so I am excited about doing signs with her.

 

[Karel]

Could she be doing the sign for help? That would be a basic sign they might teach as one of the first signs.

The palm is clenched with the thumb up on top of the flat palm and then makes an upward motion.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Close, but she had her palm flat out. But, with her being 15 months, she may not have it quite right! She does the one for Daddy a lot...

Oh, that explains a lot. As I said before my DD uses the that sign for more. It is also the baby cookie sign so it something in regard to that. (food) In fact my DD (the same age as yours.) Is just starting to use "more" correctly. It was what you were saying "baby cookie" untill last week when she was able to change it to the actual more sign (both hands together in a closes claw shape and tapping each other.)

Pretty postive she means she wants more, or to eat. (more actually is a hard concenpt, that you have to have some to get more isn't something a 15 month old gets.) That is just what my DD does too.



My DD won't sign mom or dad yet, but will say them. Quite frankly I am not sure she is aware of her forehead, so I don't know if she would do "dad". She will do mom, but only when I "help" her. She says mom though.

 

[momsgoofy]

The "Y" handshape for that is used more for concepts that actual objects. IE: talking about condiments (has no sign) and signing, ketchup, mayo, mustard. THAT
Objects you would point at the actual object or to the hand.
Problem in ASL is that signs are not words but concepts and ideas so you have to use the sign for what you are meaning.
IE: GIRL SHE PRETTY SHE would be spoken That girl is pretty.

Gallaudet Survival Handbook is far too basic for me at this point. I use the Sternberg ASL dictionary as well as the Handshape Dictionary. Right now my ASL and deaf studies books fill an entire bookcase in my family room. Videos fill another small bookcase.

TalikingHands and others...

The following address is an excellent source of information for signs...

http://www.theinterpretersfriend.com/

David presented a workshop in my area a couple of years ago and is awesome! I've been using his CDs "Technical & Specialized Vocabulary Resource Dictionary Over 15,000 Entries" this semester as I am interpreting in a World Religions class that discusses Hinduism, Buddism, Islam, Judiaism, and Christianity. I've found signs (or sign phrases) for most of them. It is a great resource for interpreters and anyone who uses ASL.

Just thought I would share with you...

 

[DisneyPhD]

Thanks goofys mom. I bookmarked the site.

Thanks Texan Mouseketeer for asking the question, it bought out the signer on Dis. I knew Tallking hands signed, but I didn't know there was any others signers or interepters on dis. I really need to get around to getting certififed for Michigan, but since I have been home for a year I am a bit rusty.

Any other ASL uses out there? Anyone interesting in learning? I

Texan Mouseketeer, how did it turn out? Is she signing for more or cookie, or just food (My DD does it to nurse too, she wakes up in the middle of night making the sign for more in the dark! )

 

[staceyfe]

Any other ASL uses out there? Anyone interesting in learning? I

I'm currently in ASL 4 at local state college (non-credit ) I'm slowly becoming fluent, but it's hard when you know no deaf people other than the teachers. I'm not sure what I'll do with it, but I know it's a passion of mine and I feel it's a call on my life.

 

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

Ask the teacher and tell us. I'm pretty sure she's signaling she wants MORE.

That's the baby sign my little one used. Only she learned to talk as quickly as she learned to sign--and she would say "MO MO MO pease...."

A funny diversion...when she was about 17 mos. old we took her on her first Disney cruise, and as soon as we got back home she started saying "Mommy, MO MO CATION"--as in "Mommy, I want More VACATION..."

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

I asked her teacher this morning and she said that she was indeed doing the sign for more like some of you said. They explained that they try to use the real sign for more where you put your fingertips together but that babies have a hard time with the coordination of doing that and often it ends up with a finger to the palm. Sure enough, the teacher put some fruit loops on her plate as she was sitting her down for her snack and Audrey was signing 'more' like she didn't put enough down for her!
This has been very interesting! DH and I are trying to learn the sheets she's bringing home to try to sign back with her.