I may be at home but I am still active in sign language activities. One of them is our weekly meetings during Sundays. That way, we receive spiritual nourishment with deaf people, and online association with them.
I am also active teaching my deaf students, and I have four whom I taught using videoconferencing, and two of them are being taught regularly. Good thing there's Zoom, and Messenger Room services which we can use for our lessons.
Usually three times a week, though lessened to two, I am teaching sign language to a number of hearing people. The photo collage above shows some of the lessons I woudl be teaching them.
Our first discussions are focused on classifiers, and some facts about the deaf community. It was followed by vocabularies. We also discussed about story-telling, and some sentences. However, we need to focus on sentences the next time. That will improve their communication skills in sign language too.
I already mentioned it before, I started studying sign language on 2006. It means I am involved in sign language for more than 14 years. I am a volunteer in teaching deaf people in their homes, as well as teaching in a vocational school, and interpreting in social welfare department 12 years ago.
While communicating with my deaf student
I do song sign but I am not so good at that. I want to improve my song signing, and who knows, I might decide creating videos of mine with song signing. Just in case some may not be familiar, song signing is deaf people's way of singing. Recently, there's this young woman who became trending with her song signing of Fight Song by Rachel Platten. You can check the video below.
She isn't deaf, but she's obviously good in her sign language skills. Though, I think she drew an inspiration from the video below.
I am practicing my song signing skills, and hopefully, I would be sharing videos someday.
