NBC does not include captions on their internet news stories, so I created them for this video. Do you think if I send the file to them, they will pay me for it?
These parents are willing to pay $180 to learn how to sign. There are many resources and ways in which we can learn how to sign and some are free, especially if you know a Deaf person who is willing to teach for free.
Do you think the many so-called skeptical experts know how to sign or have ever taught a child how to sign?
Here is another video where the parents are teaching their kids how to sign and learn the scriptures at the same time. This child is signing along with a video called “Book of Mormon Stories”, and this video costs only $1.00 at the LDS online store (item 54100010 if you are interested).
My Deaf friends continue to create many ASL Gospel videos that are available for free on lds.org.
Before I met my husband, I knew nothing about ASL and Deaf Culture. I was 45 years old. Steve taught me the alphabet before we were married and many signs after that. I learned basic sign language using a CD called “Sign Language for Everyone” (no longer available) and from a set of VHS tapes that I found on the internet. Since then I have accumulated many videos from several sources that teach PSE (Pigeon Signed English) and ASL (American Sign Language). I enjoyed learning how to Sign Naturally from an excellent Deaf instructor at the Salt Lake Community College, along with several tutors whom I consider my friends. I learned from fluent ASL users in the Deaf ward. I learn by watching interpreters–when we have one–in the hearing ward.
Now I am learning ASL by watching and reading the Book of Mormon in both ASL and English (a slow process for me, but that’s beside the point). I owe this opportunity and privilege to Minnie-Mae Wilding Diaz, the ASL translator of the Book of Mormon.
So what is the point of this blog post? You are never too young or too old to learn some sign language. It is worth the effort.
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Hi
My name is Terry, I came across your blog, and would love to be friends, I am hearing, but I had to
have a voice prosthesis put in about 5 years ago, Due to cancer on my voice box, I went a year with out talking,
I have always wanted to learn ASL, but put it off, until
this happen to me, So now I’m learning and studying ASL, I would someday love to work with child in learning ASL, Right now I’m homeschooling my daughter.
Terry, I am happy to be friends with you. I use to be a costume designer/seamstress and was raised on a farm. It was fun to read some of your blog.
Hi Julia, I teach ASL and I was looking for blogs to follow. I am hearing and I have a deaf boyfriend of 2 years and I feel like I can relate with you. I was wondering and hoping that you will be posting more blogs in the future and more frequently?
Thank you
Michelle, I will try to write more. My frustration has reached a new level, but my sense of humor is still with me.