In a small group of three, my friends and I gathered at Kirkhof Learning Center at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) Allendale campus. We met on multiple occasions to discussed and practiced different lessons that were taught in class. The times we met usually on Friday morning Approximately around 9-10 am and occasionally Wednesday 3-4pm, depend of who would be available at that moment. The dates my group of friends and I met are 11/03/2017, 10/27/2017, 09/13/2017, and a few more dates that I do not remember. My friends and I agreed to signed as a deaf and hard-of-hearing person and see if the other person could understand the conversation and the third person would watch and see if it made sense. First, we started off with introduction then move on to location such as where did they lived in each perspective to telling activities pertained to
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If we could not have expressed the term properly or able to sign it, we would fingers spell it repeatedly until the other individual would comprehend it. After communicated non-verbally for an extensive amount of times, the feeling of speaking does not seem relevant anymore as our bodies and so concentrated on the hand signs motion and attentive attention toward the other individual; we felt as if we were in a different world that we would normally be in. My friends and I would have tried to be created unique sentences built up of vocabularies that we had learn so far. Most of the sentences were very simple but hurtful resembled how a normal sentence a deaf and hard-of-hearing person would signs. It was amusing to compare the difference in sentence structure between the simplicity of American Sign Language to English. In summary, the experience was very mesmerizing as you have a group of peers willing to make mistake and learns together just a mother/father holds your hands walked you through a threshold toward an unknown
If we could not have expressed the term properly or able to sign it, we would fingers spell it repeatedly until the other individual would comprehend it. After communicated non-verbally for an extensive amount of times, the feeling of speaking does not seem relevant anymore as our bodies and so concentrated on the hand signs motion and attentive attention toward the other individual; we felt as if we were in a different world that we would normally be in. My friends and I would have tried to be created unique sentences built up of vocabularies that we had learn so far. Most of the sentences were very simple but hurtful resembled how a normal sentence a deaf and hard-of-hearing person would signs. It was amusing to compare the difference in sentence structure between the simplicity of American Sign Language to English. In summary, the experience was very mesmerizing as you have a group of peers willing to make mistake and learns together just a mother/father holds your hands walked you through a threshold toward an unknown