ASL fingerspelling help from yahoo site

[taylorcamel]

ASL Fingerspelling

Alphabet & Number Flashcards Online
Print ASL only, ASL plus capital letter, or ASL plus capital and small letter.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/language/asl/flashcards/

Alphabet Flashcards Online
Click on "Bulletin Board Cards" or "Flashcards".
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/sign_language/

Finerspelling in VRML
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~su/asl/asl.html

Fingerspelling
Downloadable program
http://www.umsl.edu/~tjlcniem/fspell.htm

Fingerspelling
Alphabet demonstrated with real hand.
http://where.com/scott.net/asl/abc.html

Fingerspelling - recognizing word shapes
Learn to use and recognize all the letter patterns used in English.
http://www.jal.cc.il.us/ipp/fingspell/

Fingerspelling Game
http://www.iwaynet.net/~ggwiz/boggle/bogglefs.htm

Fingerspelling Quiz
Practice reading fingerspelled words; allows users to adjust speed.
http://asl.ms/

Fingerspelling Quiz
Practice reading fingerspelled words (uses real hand).
http://where.com/cgi-bin/quiz.pl

Fonts
ASL alphabet fonts for Macintosh and Windows computers. Download the Gallaudet font as the Handsign font doesn't appear to be standard fingerspelling.
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/asl.html

GG Wiz's Fingerspelling
http://www.iwaynet.net/~ggwiz/asl/

[amiller]

Didn't there used to be a quiz where you could practice fingerspelling?

[taylorcamel]

Didn't there used to be a quiz where you could practice fingerspelling?

I think there was. I wonder where it was posted. If anyone finds it please add it to the links. I know I could use the practice.

[amiller]

I had it bookmarked but the site is no longer there. If anyone finds it let us know!

[taylorcamel]

ASL FOR FAMILIES
LESSON # 21
Fingerspelling

Summary of Lesson
*Fingerspelling is a natural part of ASL.
*Deaf children and hearing children who have Deaf parents learn to “read” fingerspelling very early.
*They do not actually read the letters and connect them with written words. Rather, they see the words as signs or movements that represent concepts.
*Later as they learn to read they learn to connect fingerspelling with the alphabet.
*Do not hesitate to fingerspell with your child, no matter how young she is.
*Many words do not necessarily have specific signs so fingerspelling is appropriate to use.
*Many food items and proper nouns are fingerspelled.
*Some words are fingerspelled for ease of production or for emphasis.

Grammatical Principles
*Tips on reading fingerspelling (receptive fingerspelling):
-Do not read fingerspelled words letter-by-letter. Read fingerspelling like you read words in a book—sounding out the letters.
-Keep your focus on the face and neck area, not just on the hands.
-Keep the hand in your peripheral area. This allows you to see the fingerspelling without missing any important facial expressions.
-Pay attention to how the hand changes as the word is fingerspelled. APPLE has much shape change while SEAT has little.
-Fill in the blanks (closure) when you miss a letter. If you miss the L in APPLE, you can fill in the L to make sense of the word.
-Know the context of the conversation. When you know what you’re talking about, you can use closure to fill in the configuration of a word.
*Tips on fingerspelling (expressive fingerspelling)
-Practice fingerspelling things that you see through the day.
-Fingerspelling should be smooth like a sign, not bouncy or segmented.
-Practice making the letters flow smoothly from one to the other.
-Don’t try to spell too fast but don’t be slow either. Use a normal speed.
-Do not try to fingerspell faster than you can read. If you fingerspell fast, others will assume you can read fast and will spell quickly to you.
-You can mouth the words while fingerspelling but do not mouth letter-by-letter. Do not mouth the word before or after fingerspelling.
-Keep your palm facing outward at all times except for G, H, P, and Q.
-Do not bounce your hand up and down.
-Do not push your hand in and out.
-Hold your hand at a natural, comfortable distance from your body.

Vocabulary List
See attached ABC chart.



Practice Activities
*Sit in a circle. The first person spells a word that starts with A. The next person spells a word that starts with B and so on.
*Sit in a circle. The first person spells a word in a category (food). The next person spells another word in the same category.
*Sit in a circle. The first person spells any word. The second person spells a word that begins with the last letter of the first word. (APPLE-ELEPHANT-TRAIN-NAP, etc.)
*Learn to spell family members’ names.
*Play Scrabble, fingerspelling all the words you make for points.
*Play Candyland, fingerspelling all the color words.

[amiller]

I practice fingerspelling while in the car, at stpolights or in traffic. I spell words in the songs on the radio or what the people in the car are saying, but msotly I sign what is on the roadsigns. I have gotten much better since my hands have learned how to move from letter to letter! LOL

One side effect I was not anticipating: the things I can now spell fastest are San Antonio, No Left Turn, and Exit Only.

[dmmetler]

This site has animations for each Alphabet letter

http://www.unitykid.com/indexsl.html

[dmmetler]

More printable fingerspelling flash cards

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/asl/index.html

[c01dunlap]

ASL Fingerspelling

...GG Wiz's Fingerspelling
http://www.iwaynet.net/~ggwiz/asl/

Note that they have moved this site to http://wowway.com/~ggwiz/asl/ and also have a Boggle Game (http://wowway.com/~ggwiz/boggle/bogglefs.htm) that is fun!

[rjwolfe]

I had it bookmarked but the site is no longer there. If anyone finds it let us know!

There's

asl.ms (http://asl.ms)
and there's fantastic new software at

fingerspellingtutor.com (http://fingerspellingtutor.com)

that shows not the pictures of each letter, but the motion *between* the letters!

Also, there's a mahjong game on the site that uses the manual alphabet.

Enjoy.

[greenmatter]

Thanks! some great resources

[Malean]

I find www.aslpro.com to be very useful. It has a "quiz me" section that sets up fingerspelling quizzes at different speeds depending on your abilities. I spent a lot of time there practicing a while ago.

-Margot
Advanced Signing Time Instructor
www.uppervalleysupersigners.com
Vermont