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Signing with both hands?
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on May. 11, 2009 at 6:33 PM
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So I have a broken elbow....makes life interesting! While teaching my sign language class yesturday, I had a mom ask me about dominant hands.
Can you change hands for signs?
The answer is yes and no. LOL. When signing with your baby/child, then you can use either hand, even alternating as necessary if one hand is full. But if you're conversing with a deaf person then you need to pick a dominant hand and stick with it. This is difficult for me. I am left handed. So I first learned to sign right handed (as that's how all the illustrations and 99% of the instructors taught) but then I reversed the signs to use my left as my dominant, which is more comfortable. But now I find both hands easy to sign with, which means I have to be careful to use just one hand as a dominant in a conversation.
But for most of us, signing with out kids as another type of language skill, then it's not so important, as long as you help them sign using their dominant hands.
Shannon
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- by on May. 12, 2009 at 10:06 AM
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I've seen some left-handed hearing people TRY to sign with their right hands before - it's interesting how they thought or were taught to sign with their right hand. For those who are going to learn to sign or are already trying to sign with their right hand when they're more comfortable using their left, go ahead and switch. :)
I'm a deaf lefty and have been signing using my left hand (as the dominant hand) ever since I learned to sign as a baby/toddler. Thank goodness my parents didn't force me to use my right hand (as it was taboo to use your left hand back then!). ;)
Hope your elbow heals quickly, Shannon!
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- by on May. 12, 2009 at 12:44 PM
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THANKS!!
As a lefty myself, I tried to force learning with the right hand as that was the one everyone else was using...but it felt weird and I ended up with a weird blend of both, until I had a teacher finally tell me to pick a dominant hand and stick with it!
Now when I'm teacher I use the left hand unless people are struggling with a sign, then I'll demo the right hand.
But I've had parents of hearing children ask me about switching hands back and forth if their hands are full - those parents who are basically just using Baby Signs (although it's a personal battle for me to force them to keep it up...lol) - since they're not communicating with a HH person it's a less formal form of sign - neither ASL nor SEE, or even MCE (manually coded) - Baby sign is a bastardized version of all 3, which is why I hate it and stick with ASL or SEE - in which case it's more acceptable to vary for ease of use.
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