045 ASL American Sign Language Vocabulary Expansion Series, Dr. Bill & Cäsar Jacobson @sign-language
045 ASL American Sign Language Vocabulary Expansion Series, Dr. Bill & Cäsar Jacobson  @sign-language
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Vocabulary Expansion Series Lesson 45.

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ASL American Sign Language Vocabulary Expansion Series (45)
Dr. Bill Vicars with Cäsar Jacobson
Intended audience: Students who have who have completed Level 2 or higher of the ASL University curriculum.
youtu.be/g_4q1EM6d5Y

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From the Powerpoint slides:
Dr. Bill Vicars
&
Cäsar Jacobson
Vocabulary Expansion Series
Lesson 45
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Let's review our previous lesson (VES 44)
Show me a few ways to sign:

anticipate
Show me a few ways to sign:

environment
CLOSE shut

SCHOOL
DISTRICT
hard-of-hearing
inform

vs

information
Show me a few ways to sign:

least
program
restrict
strict

SCHOOL DISTRICTS
LOCAL ED AGENCIES START INFORM D/HH PROGRAMS
NEED CLOSE. WHY-rhet? THINK BILL PASS WILL.
CLOSE
in general
vs
shut down a program or go out of business
Now let’s continue our discussion
of a public announce-ment. (part 3)
TWICE double
two-fold
dual
two times
BOTH PAIR
BOTH vs
couple
or
PAIR
COUPLE
can refer to two people
in a relation-ship
a couple of
can sometimes mean
several
Language initialized version
language non-initialized version
(requires context)
=
SENTENCE
Review:

go out of business
bilingual has versions …
Bilingual version: TWO LANGUAGE (non-initialized)
(requires context)
Bilingual version: TWICE LANGUAGE (non-initialized)
(requires context)
Bilingual version:

TWICE LANGUAGE (initialized)

Bilingual version: BOTH LANGUAGE (non-initialized)
(requires context)
Plus there are other versions of bilingual so stay flexible.
FULL complete
total

INCLUDE
involve
included
Read but don’t sign
the
next two slides
Putting a disabled child into a regular school …
… is called total inclusion
I’ll sign this then your turn…
DISABLED CHILD PLACEMENT
MAINSTREAM THAT NAMED SO-CALLED TOTAL INCLUSION
non-Deaf DISABLED CHILDREN MAYBE FEEL INCLUDED BUT …
MAIN-STREAMED DEAF
NOT FEEL INCLUDED
WHY?-rhetorical

vs

WHY?-WH-question
THEY-all ENVIRON-MENT NOT SIGN. HARD COMMU-NICATE
main-streaming ONE DEAF WITH HEARING MEANS IX DEAF LIMIT COMMUNI-CATION
ISOLATION
version 1
initialized

version 2
non-initialized
ISOLATION

vs
all alone by myself
Read this next slide but don’t sign it yet
Part 3:
Total inclusion is total isolation for our Deaf and Hard of Hearing students!
SO-CALLED
TOTAL INCLUSION
EQUAL TOTAL ISOLATION FOR DEAF HARD HEARING STUDENT
Review
a COUPLE

a pair

these two
all alone by myself
Bilingual version: TWICE LANGUAGE (non-initialized) (requires context)
Bilingual version: TWO LANGUAGE (initialized)
FULL complete total
INCLUDE
involve
included inclusion
BOTH
COMMU-NICATE
DISABLED
ENVIRON-MENT versions
fs-BUT!
go out of business
HARD
HARD of HEARING
ISOLATION
version 1
initialized

version 2
non-initialized
language non-initialized version (requires context)
=
sentence
MAIN-STREAM
MAYBE
NAMED
non-Deaf person
PLACEMENT
several
SO-CALLED
THAT
THEY-all
TWICE double
two-fold
dual
two times
WHY? wh-type question
WHY? -rhetorical
Okay, sign this one last time for today …
SO-CALLED
TOTAL INCLUSION
EQUAL TOTAL ISOLATION FOR DEAF HARD HEARING STUDENT
Compre-hension question …
DEAF PEOPLE FEEL SO-CALLED
TOTAL INCLUSION
EQUAL TOTAL ISOLATION WHY?
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