To execute the sign for ICE-CREAM, close your fist as if you are holding an ice-cream cone at your mouth and mimic licking the ice-cream. The sign does not require you to stick your tongue out.
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Deaf culture Tip – Sign Variation
Just as there are differences in hearing individuals “accents” and slang from coast to coast there are regional differences in signs. A good book on the topic of variations is What’s your Sign for Pizza?
Should Your Baby “invent” ASL Signs?
Kids are an inventive bunch – “invisible friends,” Lego creatures or coloring outside the lines. It’s part of their personality formation. So it is OK to let your baby make up new signs, right? False – it will hinder, not help. If you wanted to learn French, would you cobble […]
Sign of the Week – BLUE
To execute the sign for BLUE, place your dominant hand in a “B” handshape with your palm facing outward. Pivot your wrist back and forth a few times.
Sign of the Week – SIT
To execute the sign for SIT, bend the index finger and your middle finger on your dominant hand representing the legs of a body. Place them on top of the index and middle fingers of your non dominant hand representing a chair as shown in the illustration.