Home Learning: Review Basic Sign Language

I love you!

Our class has a great team for Speech Therapy. We have been having lessons in American Sign Language. Here are a few sources to review.

20+ Basic Sign Language Phrases for Beginners | ASL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1desDduz5M

Learn American Sign Language: Beginner conversational words and phrases in ASL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhQvlq-mZtA

25 Basic ASL Signs For Beginners | Learn ASL American Sign Language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Raa0vBXA8OQ&t=33s

This is a great one to use all day. Thank you.

Strategies for Teaching Non-Verbal Students

Verywell Health

Who Uses Sign Language?

https://www.verywellhealth.com/sign-language-nonverbal-users-1046848

It is not just deaf and hard of hearing children who use sign language. Another large segment of sign language users is hearing nonverbal children who are nonverbal due to conditions such as down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, trauma, and brain disorders or speech disorders.

Classroom Accommodations for Nonverbal Learning Disabilities

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/instructional-strategies/at-a-glance-classroom-accommodations-for-nonverbal-learning-disabilities

Students who have nonverbal learning disabilities (NVLD) have difficulty with social skills and abstract thinking. They often need explicit instruction to pick up on social cues and struggle with things like abstract concepts or changes to their routine. 

6 Strategies for Encouraging a Non-Verbal Child to Communicate

https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org/6-strategies-for-encouraging-a-non-verbal-child-to-communicate/

Engaging a non-verbal child doesn’t necessarily mean being resigned to non-verbal methods of communication forever. New breakthroughs have shown that you can actually use non-verbal methods as a way to begin encouraging your child to use words… and in the meantime develop effective strategies for figuring out what they want and need.

Students with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities

http://www.ldonline.org/article/6116/

This group of disabled learners has only begun to receive the understanding and attention they require. To understand the difficulties they face and to help them to make the best of their assets while minimizing the effects of their weaknesses, we need to recognize the syndrome and its implications.

Good Book Time? Tweets of the Morning 10/30/12

 

Today, pretend might be good.

1. Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/13715/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Hootsuite&utm_campaign=RRSocialMedia 

2. What Is Project-Based Learning?

http://edudemic.com/2012/10/what-is-project-based-learning/ 

 

3. A Bright Light During Dark Days: Bloomberg's Sign Language Star

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/30/163940098/a-bright-light-during-dark-news-bloombergs-sign-language-star?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20121030 

4. Knowing Your Child's Rights

http://www.ncld.org/parents-child-disabilities/ld-rights/knowing-your-childs-rights 

5. Learning to Advocate for Your Special Needs Child

http://special-ism.com/learning-to-advocate-for-your-special-needs-child/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Special-ism+%28Special-ism%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

6. Beyond Back to School Night: Parents and Teachers as Allies

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/parents-and-teachers-as-allies-mark-phillips 

Just post it!

7. Post-its: Little Notes for Big Discussions

All Grades, ELA, Discussion 

 https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/enhance-student-note-taking

8. Why I Will Never Use a Behavior Chart Again 

http://teachinginprogress.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/why-i-will-never-use-behavior-chart.html 

9. James Redford’s view of “The Big Picture”

http://realscreen.com/2012/10/29/james-redfords-view-of-the-big-picture/ 

10. The State of Learning Disabilities

http://www.ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/what-is-ld/state-of-learning-disabilities 

Reading the Signs of Love

Natalie's sign for love

Thank you, Paul McCartney, for the lovely song and even lovelier music video.

  "My Valentine" video. And these are the correct signs for love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5oUQUR8uTk&NR=1&feature=endscreen

Apparently there were some errors with the signing.

 http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/entertainment-eonline/20120419/b310171/

And actually it appears the video has been removed! I'm sorry--maybe it's on McCartney's site. Its so cool--reminds me of when I had an activity with singing and signing in my Special Ed. class.

Johnny's sign for love.

My Valentine - Featuring Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp
www.paulmccartney.com
Directed by Paul McCartney
Featuring: Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp
Guitar: Eric Clapton (because George Harrison was unavailable)

What if it rained?
We didn't care
She said that someday soon the sun was gonna shine.
And she was right, this love of mine, My Valentine
As days and nights,
would pass me by

Paul at the Grammys singing to Nancy.

I tell myself that I was waiting for a sign
Then she appeared,
a love so fine, My Valentine
And I will love her for life
And I will never let a day go by
without remembering the reasons why
she makes me certain that I can fly
And so I do,
without a care
I know that someday soon the sun is gonna shine
And she'll be there This love of mine My Valentine
(instrumental)
What if it rained?
We didn't care.
She said that someday soon the sun was gonna shine
and she was right This love of mine, My Valentine

Learning Differently: Each Learner Has A Unique Value

A child may have an auditory or visual handicap. One student may not speak, a different student may not have sight. A kid might be hearing impaired, or another may have cognitive interferences. A learner may best learn through different venue, but each learner has a unique value.
http://www.smartkidswithld.org/
Family and school supply learning opportunities for kids at all levels of ability. http://sitemaker.umich.edu/cooper.356/teachers   I have found that no matter what the 'label' a student has, he's smart in his unique way and it is my assignment as teacher to surround him with the necessary environment and stimulation to learn. http://specialed.about.com/cs/teacherstrategies/a/Strategies.htm I've been privileged to teach all levels of learners, from the profoundly handicapped, to severely handicapped, to mild and moderately handicapped to everyone else, including the gifted, who are exceptional in their own way. Busy, busy, busy! But amazing.
http://specialed.about.com/od/physicaldisabilities/a/severe.htm

Communication- helping the kids have a voice- is totally the most important task a teacher has. The one, single issue for students that has settled as Numero Uno in my teacher's mind involves quality of life: does the child have choices? How can a child have choices if she can't communicate?
 http://deafness.about.com/cs/deafculture/a/deafculture101.htm
I won't lie. Teaching the handicapped is complex, intense, plus you have to deal with all those grown-ups (Special Ed. meetings and such.) It is the Navy Seal job of teaching.http://www.superduperinc.com/handouts/pdf/77_ABC_IEP.pdf
But what a profound experience to communicate with an autistic student. I always feel so privileged that he will make eye contact with me. Or teaching a severely handicapped student that couldn't see or speak to sign thirty words. Finally he could tell us he really didn't like music, but loved the mini trampoline.
 http://www.the-parenting-magazine.com/tag/special-education/

We teach in a team, the team made up of family, teachers and staff at school--not to mention the student's friends, church, babysitter, cousins, even pets. The teaching staff and support staff in the district where I teach are amazing experts, and I am confident to ask for help in areas I don't think my knowledge is as advanced as it needs to be. Not one of us has all the expertise for our student. We provide the learning network supporting her throughout the day because living her life is her educational program.

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/cooper.356/teachers

Good to learn! First we sing our ABCs then we sign them.