Sign Language: School

Video Transcript

"Often times in conversation you'll talk about where you go to school. You might sign where do you go to school. That's a very common question. Most deaf students grew up in a residential school for the deaf, so they want to know if someone went to a school close to theirs or at a school where they know someone else. The deaf community is very small and there's a high chance they they will know someone that you also know if you've gone to a deaf school. This is the sign for school. Did you go to a deaf school? This is another sign for deaf school. You can see how I signed it differently. Did you go to a hearing school? Hearing school. Were you mainstreamed. Which means that you were the only one deaf student in the hearing school. I grew up mainstreamed. There's another sign for mainstreamed, which means they're might have been a few other deaf students in that hearing school. So you would show a number of students attending that school. Mainstream. Deaf college. Or even just college. Gallaudet is a common sign because there's one deaf university in the United States. Hearing college. Good job. You want to remember the sign for school and college. Deaf college, hearing college. Good job."