Answers to Questions:

Grades K-3

1. Babies can learn sign language.

2. You can have them draw a picture to demonstrate one of these signs.

3. Make sure your hands are in the right position.

4. Your face tells the hearing impaired or deaf person what you are thinking. If you have a sad face, they will assume you are unhappy.

5. No, it is better to learn the correct way to sign rather than work on speed. Speed will come with practice.

6. Answers will vary. Perhaps have the student draw the sign of each letter of their names.

 

Grades 4-8

1. To help them communicate.

2. Sign choices will vary but may consist of bath, book, bottle, eat, hungry, milk, more, and mother. These should have been selected because they deal with issues that are most prevalent when babies are fussy.

3. The look on your face tells a deaf person what you may be thinking.

4. You can use sign language to communicate at times when oral communication is not advisable.

5. Answers will vary. Perhaps have the student draw the sign of each letter of their names.

6. By practicing; however, forming the correct letter is first and foremost in learning sign language.

 

Grades 9-12

1. Studies have shown that babies can communicate with gestures before they can verbally. This could possibly reduce the amount of anxiety in infants trying to communicate with their parents who cannot yet understand them.

2. Answers will vary. Including bath, book, bottle, eat, hungry, milk, more, and mother.

3. Hearing impaired would include the range of those with different levels of hearing.

4. Your facial expressions can help in communicating ideas as well as feelings.

5. Practice.

6. To communicate with the hearing impaired. The hearing impaired may communicate with those who hear and with each other.