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Before Sunday School, I spied two ladies fingerspelling to each other in their Sunday School class. They were doing it behind someone’s back, which is really a shocker to see older adults act like schoolkids. There were other adults practicing sign language vocabulary that they’ve been learning in class. Whenever they’re doing it, they’re smiling.
After Sunday School class, Rob called me over to that class and informed me that they’ve been talking about me. “Of course!” I sarcastically replied, thinking that he was kidding. Really, they’ve been discussing about my deafness and about communication methods that were being used to teach the deaf for the past 45 minutes. They asked several questions and shared their own experiences with relatives who have hearing loss. Rob moderated the discussion until I joined in for the last few minutes. So, I guess Sunday School lesson went out the window when they decided to practice their sign language skills.
About three weeks ago, I have started teaching ASL class at the church. There have been 10 to 12 people attending every Thursday, and they are motivated to learn. The ages range from 12 to 80. They work hard to make handshapes and formulate them into signs. They learn how to sign everyday sentences: Good morning, How are you?, Fine, What’s up?, and more. Then on Sundays, they come to me signing, “Hi! What’s up?” It’s been nice to see them warming up to a new language and new way of communicating. I hope that they continue to learn more and more signs and to become even more comfortable doing so.
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