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If I ever wanted to learn ASL, I wonder how it would work if I'm blind if its hand gestures that require sight to actually respond to? Genuinely curious. #Blind, #ASL, #SignLanguage
Happy #NationalASLDay! 
Dive into the transformative impact of signing characters in media on deaf children's language learning.
Grate interview - on Science Friday: 'How Signing Characters Help Deaf Children Learn Language' https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/deaf-sign-language-learning-media/ #ASL #Inclusion #DeafEducation #LanguageLearning #MediaRepresentation #DeafCommunity #InclusiveMedia #LanguageDevelopment #DeafAwareness #Inclusive #Education #MediaInnovation #LanguageLearning
Source: @kffhealthnews
From the article: "For years, White House press conferences included sign language interpreters for the deaf.
"No longer. Interpreters have been noticeably absent from Trump administration press briefings, advocacy groups say. Gone, too, are the American Sign Language interpretations that used to appear on the White House’s YouTube channel. A White House webpage on accessibility, whitehouse.gov/accessibility, has also ceased working.
"From halting diversity programs that benefit people with disabilities to staffing cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Trump administration has taken a slew of actions that harm those with impairments or chronic health conditions. Decades of hard-fought gains risk being undone by cuts to federal programs, freezes on research funding, and a White House ban on practices that support diversity."
#Disabled #Elderly #DEI #Accessibility #Deaf #ASL #Research #USPolitics
Tein aiemmion kyselyn tästä emojista/käsimerkistä (
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Halusin nähdä kuinka ihmiset tulkitsevat tai tietävät ennestään kyseisen käsimerkin tarkoituksen. Äänestystuloksen perusteella 14% äänestäjistä tiesi käsimerkin alkuperäisen merkityksen.
Kyseessä on hyvin vanha käsimerkki. Merkin tarkoitus on ilmaista "I love you" tai "love you". Sanojen ensimmäiset alkukirjaimet sormitetaan samanaikaisesti sormiaakkosina eli I, L ja Y.
Käsimerkin historia on pitkä, se ulottuu 1900-luvun tienoolle ja on tullut alkujaan amerikkalaisesta viittomakielestä. Kyseinen käsimerkki on levinnyt viime vuosikymmeninä sosiaalisen median kautta laajasti yleiseen käyttöön ympäri maailmaa. Tätä käytetään myös täällä meillä Suomessakin viittomakielisten kesken.
Äänestystulokset voit lukea täältä: https://mementomori.social/@mustikkasoppa/114279578956664082
The US right is coming for disabled people;
Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/mar/27/us-disability-rights-trump
#news #politics #UnitedStates #a11y #accessiblity #MadKingDonald #AmericanSignLanguage #ASL #Deaf
hi everyone! hope you are all having an amazing FRIDAY! 
need help: am looking for an online asl course. no testing required. it's so i can then go to an actual class and be a bit prepared. yea, it's jff.
please send links and/or info. 
thanks. 
Götterdämmerung The 2nd Semester ASL Student Typology
They survived ASL 1. The strong ones, the fast ones, the ones who kept up while others drowned. But ASL 2? Whole different beast. No more easy drills. No more spoon feeding. No more hiding behind fingerspelling like a damn life raft. This is where fluency stops being a hobby & starts being a mountain. Not everyone makes it to the top. Some climb. Some stall out. Some fake it. Some die on the trail.
New #introduction post!
I'm Alicia and I'm a fibre artist (#dyeing #handspinning #felting #needlefelting #weaving #crochet #embroidery #upcycling #sewing) with interests in #mandala #art #psychedelicart #sacredgeometry #neurographicart and #watercolors.
My family and I run a business called @Fibre2Fabric where we dye all sorts of exotic #fibre #yarn, and #fabric.
I live in the country with my partner and our 6 #cats, 3 #dogs, #snake and #crestedgecko where I enjoy my many interests. (#gardening #plants #herbalism #fungi #music #ukulele #piano #dancing #flowart #reading #writing #tarot #poetry #haiku #cozygames and I'm getting more into #opensource / #linux)
When I say flow art, I mean spinning props like #hulahoop #leviwand #puppyhammer #poi #staff #silkfans #firefans etc.
I love #languagelearning. I studied #German and #Spanish as a kid, took #Japanese in uni, and I'm currently studying #ASL #Cree #Tokipona #Spanish and #Chinese. I also dabble in #French and #Latin sometimes and I'm learning #Greggshorthand to write faster. Cree is my favourite language and Spanish is my second.
I've been cursed since childhood with that lovely trifecta of #heds #pots and #mcas. Healing slowly but surely.
Hope I get to meet even more cool people the algorithms would normally drown out on other social media sites. I love it here!
Tonight, #Seattle , a restoration of #deaf American love story "Compensation" (1999) at NW Film Forum! This ambitious indie #film interweaves two couples decades apart dealing with the challenges of being hearing impaired and #Black in America. #ASL
https://grandillusioncinema.org/film/compensation/
Best use of technology I've seen in a long while: nVidia Signs
Use your selfie/web camera to learn ~100 common words in #ASL , soon to be expanded to ~1000
So, I've been hyperfixating on #ASL lately, idk if I'd feel up to joining one, but I've been wondering if there are any regular jitsi (or other floss vidchat service) chat groups for people to practice sign.
Anybody know of one?
#Drumf (#Trump) just banned use of the word #Felon in the #WhiteHouse
Note: #Parody (https://x.com/roguesnradvisor/status/1890425431683190813?s=46)
See also #ASL: https://youtu.be/S7k8WOsFTTs
https://www.youtube.com/@DeafiesinDrag
Tell your representatives that you support the Americans with Disabilities Act and providing d/Deaf people and Hard of Hearing people with ASL interpreters at EVERY government communication.
Want to learn? Awesome! Thank you.
I'm learning BSL (when I'm not increasingly sick -- wear your mask please) cuz I live in the UK.
If you live in the USA, then https://www.lingvano.com/asl/ and
https://www.queerasl.com/
coming up at 1 PM Eastern, 10 Pacific, 1800Z, it's the Trans-Canada Net, brought to you by North Fraser ARC, the club with no meetings, no dues, and no politics.
Today's question: What part of #AmateurRadio are you curious about exploring? Let's get rid of those nerves and get you started in a different facet of the hobby. (If this question is a dud, we'll talk about the weather :)
All connection ifnromation at www.thecanadahub.com
#HamRadio #Allstar #ASL #EchoLink #DMR #YSF
Maybe I need to find one good #ChrisRufo monitor because then you know what @FAIR will be complaining about in a few months when some mutation of his trolling passes muster with a half dozen of the more ghoulish editors at the Times.
Sorry to any #ASL Americans with the incredible human capacity to convey language entirely by sign. Which came first? It would be more fun to think about than who the bellwether troll will dehumanize next.
My thanks to @clive for highlighting "#ASL #poetry" within the #deaf community I belong to, but people should be careful here: many deaf people don't like this concept, because it's a reminder of the bad ol' days when ASL was considered pantomime instead of a real language, i.e. "just a bunch of monkeys pointing at things." Be careful talking about this subject with deaf people, and don't be surprised if they get angry at you for saying, "Sign language is so beautiful!"