How to learned Sign Language?

　"Many people asked me how I learned japanese sign language, to which i repliled,"I learned it wacthing sign language on TV and meet to communicate mannnnnny Deaf people!!!!"
　Two years ago, I didn't understand sign language at all.but, the more I learned sign language, the more words spilled oout from deep inside me.By learning sign language I reslized how few words i had been using.
In those days, it was widely believed that someone with a hearing disability who can lip speak is not Deaf.

Bit of knowiedge

  • Do you know?? For some gorilla can understand Sign Language and use it. The gorilla, whose name is Koko, uses about 1,000 signs in Sign language and understands about 2,000 spoken English words.
  • How to bron Sign Language? As long as I know.....Deaf history was made sign Language by one hearing.
    However, he was not Deaf. so really he's hearing! he isn't known so much, from France the 17th century.

-Deaf culture-

　Deaf culture describes the social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values and shared institutions of communities that are affected by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication. When used as a cultural label, the word deaf is often written with a capital D, and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign.　When used as a label for the audiological condition, it is written with a lower cased. Members of the Deaf community tend to view deafness as a difference in human experience rather than a disability.

  1. The community may include family members of deaf people and sign-language interpreters who identify with Deaf culture and does not automatically include all people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
  2. According to Anna Mindess, "it is not the extent of hearing loss that defines a member of the Deaf community but the individual's own sense of identity and resultant actions."
  3. As with all social groups that a person chooses to belong to, a person is a member of the Deaf community if he or she "identifies him/herself as a member of the Deaf community, and other members accept that person as a part of the community."
  4. Deaf culture is recognised under article 30, paragraph 4 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which states that "Persons with disabilities shall be entitled, on an equal basis with others, to recognition and support of their specific cultural and linguistic identity, including sign languages and deaf culture."