![]() ![]() Brown, a junior majoring in English, and serving as an A.S.L. ![]() ![]() “I imagine myself painting pictures in the air,” said Ms. Emily Brown, a sign-language student at Wesleyan University, talks excitedly about watching deaf poetry on YouTube, and “rhyming” words like “stars” and “socks,” whose signs share a hand shape and motion. Many students take aesthetic pleasure in sign language. Specifically, Emily Brown ’12 speaks about her experience and fascination with A.S.L.: And of course, like any good NYT Education article, it mentions Wesleyan. After Spanish, French, and German, sign language ranks fourth in most popular languages on college campuses. The New York Times published an article today about a dramatic increase (16%) in students taking American Sign Language. If you can’t make it but are interested in learning more about this forum contact Emma MacLean ’14 ( emacleanwesleyanedu) or Miranda Orbach ’15 ( morbachwesleyanedu). Come stop by Allbritton 304 Thursday September 5th from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM to find out more about this class. Previous experience with American Sign Language is a plus but not mandatory. We will be signing with the students to reinforce their reading vocabulary. ![]() The service learning component will involve an hour of work in either a kindergarten or first grade classroom at MacDonough. This will span deaf individuals who have lived essentially without language and then are introduced to signing later in life to hearing children who use sign to help them learn English. The classroom work will focus on the effects of sign language and spatial grammar on the brain. This forum with break down into two parts: discussion based work at Wesleyan and service learning at MacDonough Elementary School. Theater expert and hat maker extraordinaire Emma MacLean ’14 is running an awesome student forum:Ĭome check out the student forum on signing and spatial cognition. ![]()
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