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Deaf Culture Event

            The Deaf culture event that I choose to attend was the Book Hour in ASL at Borders Book and Music on November 16, 2002. At this event a teacher from Laffeyette Elementary School named Robert sat in front of a of children signing a book to a group of preschool aged children and their parents. The thing that I noticed about the hour of signed reading was how all of the children were very well behaved, sitting still paying close attention. This is very different from when I read to my six year old nephew who insists on moving around or poking the person next to him, but this is probably because deaf children have to watch the person signing to them or they will miss part of the story.
             What I found very interesting was the facial expressions that the signer used. Although I could not understand most of sign in the story (which was called "Thanksgiving Day") I picked up a little by his facial expressions, and when he showed the pictures in the book. This made me realize how deficient my ASL is. After the book was over everybody waved their hands in the air instead of clapping, and Robert signed his name (I missed his last name because I sneezed) and played with a few of the children.
             Unfortunately I was a little to shy at first to interact with anybody, and after the story I was even less sure of my signing ability. However I was just getting ready to get up when a little girl tapped me on the shoulder an signed "Excuse me, where is your child?" I told her that I don't have one and that I came because I"m a student and came for school. She smiled and nodded signed that she was also a student and then asked me if I liked the story. When I told her I didn't really understand it she told me that she would tell it to me in "small words" which made me laugh. But when she retold it to me I did understand it, I also noticed the was the way that she to used facial expression and body language as well as the order of the words and the words that she left out.


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