Using ASL Make a Trip to the Grocery Store an Educational Experience

A young person with a hearing aid smiles while looking to the right.

ASL Reading Tips

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

~ Marlee Matlin

VIDEO DEMONSTRATION:

“Reading with good comprehension requires the ability to think beyond the text. True comprehension occurs when the reader can connect the related schema in his brain to the sentence. The Deaf student who does not have full access and practice to incidental English does not know the English hierarchy of classifying, categorizing and group membership of common words. This has an impact on reading that starts at the early stages of literacy development.”

(Kristin Di Perri–The Bedrock Approach)

Your Homework assignment:

Provide explicit direction in the areas of Superordinate and subordinate nouns with our deaf students / children. Make a trip to the grocery store an educational experience by using the sections of the supermarket as our Superordinate groupings. Discuss the different types of “meats” and the different between the fruits and vegetables.

Here are some Superordinate Category Ideas:

Color	Animals	money	Restaurants	stores
Numbers	Pets	Weather	Vehicles	Countries
Letters	Superheroes	Fruits	Insects	Work
Food	meat	Vegetables	uniforms	Sports

As always, if you have any questions you can email me @: [email protected]

Resources:

ADCOHearing.com – Specializing in products for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

diglo.com – equipment and products designed for deaf and hard of hearing individuals.

HandCraftEdASL.com – any of my products are great for hearing and deaf children / siblings.

Rule-the-School.com – deaf education products

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Using ASL Make a Trip to the Grocery Store an Educational Experience

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