VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: Social activities you enjoy during summer break like swimming, playing games, eating and picnicking. Remember to use your manners and practice basic signs. Use your signs during different events and keep signing.
[2]Note: ASL is a multi-sensory form of communication that helps children acquire vocabulary more quickly and efficiently.
Tip for working with the deaf
TIP: During group activities, encourage the children to watch the faces of the other children when they speak. Semi-circle seating is especially helpful to deaf and hard of hearing children.
Enjoy and have a safe and wonderful summer.
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[4]Angie Craft author and teacher – brings over 26 years of experience in deaf education and is committed to serving the deaf community. Keenly aware of the isolation that deaf students often experience, Angie developed and wrote HandCraftEdASL to bridge the communication gap between deaf children who primarily use American Sign Language and their parents, peers or educators. www.handcraftedasl.com [5]
For more information: follow us on FaceBook @ HandCraftEdASL
Helpful Articles
- Inclusion: Why It Matters? [6]
- Swim Team Social Success [7]
- From Social Skills to Social Thinking [8]
- Inclusive Bathrooms: Let’s Start Talking About It [9]
- Social Club Extends Inclusion Beyond the Classroom [10]
- Notes from the Mama Bear Diary: A Tale of Summer Inclusion [11]
- Peaceful Fruits: Paving The Way for Socially Good Partnerships [12]
- Ethan’s Alternative Tomorrow: A PATH Toward Social Inclusion [13]
- Fitness Activities: A Gateway Towards Introducing Social Skills [14]
- Unified Sports: A Great Way to Start Inclusion in a Fun and Positive Way [15]
- Engaging Siblings to Build Social Skills: A Relative Solution to a Complex Problem [16]
- Appropriate – Where Do You Draw the Line: Teaching Social Behaviors for Independent Living [17]
This post originally appeared on our July/August 2013 Magazine [18]