learn the sign language
- Connecting with deaf people starts by learning the sign language.
- For being able to speak with a deaf person you have to face them and speak clearly in that way they can read your lips.
- The ASL (American Sign Language) consists of a series of gestures for commonly used terms and an alphabet to spell out words that aren't commonly used.
- ASL is a complex form of communicating with people who can’t hear using facial expressions, hands, arms, head and body language to deliver a message to them without talking
- The ASL has its own rules, grammar, vocabulary and by that it makes it a natural language “ in its own right”
- Learning the sign language will not only help you to communicate with deaf people, it also helps you have more probabilities on finding a job because it can be used at business meetings, sporting events or any area where deaf people attend
- The first step on learning the sign language is by mastering the ASL alphabet