If a class is doing a biology topic then it seems like a good way to spend an hour or two.ī.uk is a great website for anyone wanting to learn BSL (including finger-spelling). If nothing else, it would hopefully make signing seem less of a weird an unusual thing when they did come across it at some point in their lives. Maybe kids could use it as their secret-code, a way to communicate without their parents knowing what they are saying – that would give it a bit of a cool factor. So that got me thinking: could schools spend just one or two hours and teach nine/ten year-olds to finger-spell? Probably 90% or more of those who took the lesson would never use it again but it would be a nice introduction to an alternative form of communication, a little bit of exposure to deafness. What’s really nice is that during the rare times when I’m not wearing my hearing aids we now finger-spell short sentences to each other and it works really well. Obviously my daughter has a lot more exposure to hearing loss than many kids so she’s probably more inclined to want to learn more about hearing, signing, etc.
If she can pick up the finger alphabet in about an hour then presumably most other nine/ten year-olds can too. Now, I’m as much of a proud dad as the next man and I’m sure my daughter is destined for greatness but she’s no child prodigy or anything like that.
After about an hour of going through the alphabet she was signing words and short sentences pretty quickly.
It took me by surprise because she’d never shown any interest in learning to sign before.
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