If you are looking for ways to end frustration, aid communication, and bond with your child; look no further! Visually Speaking offers baby signing classes at the North Kirkland Community Center, meets once a week for an hour and the course lasts six weeks. Our Baby Sign classes are full of […]
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What is ASL?
American Sign Language is just that: a language. ASL has grammatical features completely different than that of English! For example: ASL relies heavily on facial expression to indicate sentence structure, sentence type, and even specific words. Body movement is instrumental to the understanding of storytelling. There are a multitude of […]
Things Deaf People Are Sick of Hearing: “My sign is rusty.”
Maybe you learned ASL years ago and haven’t used it much since, or maybe you are just getting back into classes. You haven’t signed for a year or two, so you’re worried that your signing skills are “a little rusty.” Good news! Sign language doesn’t rust or dissolve! You will […]
Things Deaf People are Sick of Hearing: The Braille Issue
Often, Deaf people will be asked if they want a braille menu or if they know braille. Though often good intentioned-a flight attendant trying to provide better accessibility-we need to take a step back! Braille is made for persons who cannot see or read well enough to understand text, and […]
Holiday Communicating
Family and the Holidays: Some of the ChallengesBeing Deaf or Hard of Hearing during the holidays can present some tough issues: especially if the family you are going home to is all hearing and doesn’t sign. For those who use hearing aids, all of the background noise of family gatherings […]
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