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Learning ASL Through

Song
OLLI FALL 2022
Class Objectives

 At the end of this class, students will be able to:


 Reproduce and notate ASL vocabulary (knowledge, comprehension)
 Construct basic ASL sentences (application)
 Discover additional resources to learning (synthesis)
 Demonstrate an awareness of Universal Design, Deaf Culture/History
(knowledge, analysis)
 Prepare and interpret select songs into sign and perform (synthesis and
evaluation)
Review & New

 ABC Song
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjmKJKG5Nx0&ab_channel=JackHartman
nKidsMusicChannel
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4FKufhMc44&ab_channel=LauraBergLife
 Numbers 1-21 (+ ending, such as 1st, 2nd, etc.)
 Days of the Week
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecKe9Z67ifU&ab_channel=TreeSchool-
PreschoolandKidsSongs
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhD6QC1IEOs&ab_channel=LauraBergLif
e
Why is ASL a different language?

ASL Sentence Structure – Grammar Basic


In American Sign Language, the syntax (word order) is different than English.
In general, the word order follows a “Subject” + “Verb” + “Object” sentence structure. You will also see
the structure “Time” + “Subject” + “Verb” + “Object”, or “Time” can be at the end of a sentence.
English: I went to Ireland a year ago.
ASL: last year me went (go + finish) Ireland.
Breaking it down:
“Time” – Year past
“Subject” – Me
“Verb” – went (go + finish)
“Object” – Ireland
 https://www.asldeafined.com/2009/06/asl-sentence-structure-basic/
White Christmas (Irving Berlin)

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas


Me dream what? white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Past Christmases, me remember, similar (nod)
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
Where tree – tops glisten, children, they listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow
[they] hear what?…bells, snow, horse, sleigh, bells
I Will (The Beatles)

Who knows how long I've loved you


Who knows how-long me love you?
You know I love you still
You know me love you…however
Will I wait a lonely lifetime
me wait life-time long, lonely?
If you want me to, I will
If you want me wait…yes, I will
Practice Time!

 Using your song, write out interpretation


 https://www.signasl.org/
 Think about what sign best fits the meaning you are trying to act out
 Paint a picture!
 TIME…
 …SUBJECT (could be a place)
 …VERB
 …OBJECT (Me? You?)
Deaf Culture: The Legacy of Bell

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmAuo7oznC0
The great project of Alexander Graham Bell's life was, perhaps surprisingly, not the telephone.
He focused much of his life on the education of deaf people, funded by his earnings from his
famous invention. He was an early pioneer of oralism, a belief that all deaf people should
learn to communicate by lip-reading and speaking, rather than with sign language.
But not all deaf people can learn to speak, or believe they should be compelled to do so.
According to author Katie Booth, the harm of oralism still reverberates.
"I can't even begin to express the deep, deep, deep trauma that so many deaf people still
carry from those educations," Booth, author of The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power
and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness, told Ideas. Booth's book, released
earlier this spring, compiles years of her research into Bell's letters and other archival
material, according to publisher Simon & Schuster.
While Bell's precise methods are no longer in use, critics say the philosophy of oralism — that
speech is inherently better than sign language — still has a harmful ripple effect to this day.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/unsound-the-legacy-of-alexander-graham-bell-
1.6020596/alexander-graham-bell-s-oralist-mission-still-harms-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-
people-say-critics-1.6025659
Review and Variation

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXyUnqOEFJI

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