Autism

Candle

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for Candle in American Sign Language. Base hand in 1 handshape touches palm of dominant hand. Dominant hand is in 5 handshape with palm facing signer. Fingers wiggle. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent pink, red, orange, and yellow in different stages of the sign. Background is transparent.

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I had a question about your commissions- is it $5 per word on the finger spellings or $5 overall? I presumed the former but wasn’t sure

I'll say up to 20 characters

Reblogging because it's my birthday next week :3

The Knoxville Center of the Deaf is having a gala and I wanna go! Tickets are $90 so I'm doing commissions. The KCD offers great services and I'd love to support them. Here's a link for anyone that wants more information or to support them directly!

Request a commission through my ko-fi or message for details. My venmo is @Lloyd_E

[Image ID: a menu for commissions. Each category has examples.

15 dollars per sign. Examples shown are "Good" and "Behavior" for $15, "Good Night" for $30 and "Anthropology" or "the Study of Human Behavior" for $45.

25 dollars per stylized sign. Examples shown are "Bones" drawn with a skeletal design and "Frog" which has a frog face included in the design for $25. The signs "Lesbian" "Gay" "Bi" "Trans" colored in their respective pride flag colors together are $80.

5 dollars per fingerspelling. Examples shown are "Nonbinary" and "Name." End ID]

Include

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for include in American Sign Language. Base hand in C handshape. Dominant hand in 5 handshape circles base hand then closes to flat O handshape and rests in base hand. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent blue, purple, and pink in different stages of the sign. Background is white.

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Pan

Sources: Rogan Shannon

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The letters P, A, an N in American Sign Language. The hands are the pansexual pride colors: pink, yellow, and blue. They are translucent and overlapping. Background is white.

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Jellyfish

Sources: SigningSavvy

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Hand in C handshape rests fingertips on base hand which pulses between 5 handshape and C handshape, moving upward every time it moves to C handshape. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent blue, purple, and pink in different stages of the sign. Background is transparent.

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Cane

Source: ASLDeafined

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Cane in American Sign Language. Hand in G handshape outline the shape of a cane. Then the signer mimics the movement of walking with a cane. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent green, blue, purple, and pink.

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art niche spotlight - De'VIA!!

De'VIA art, standing for "Deaf View/Image Art," is a form of expressive visual art created by Deaf artists!!!

The term was coined in 1989 by nine Deaf artists (Miller [painter], Johnston [sculptor], Sonnenstrahl [art historian], Baird [painter], Wonder [sculptor], Wilhite [painter], Vasnick [fiber artist], Creighton [fiber artist], Lai-Yok Ho [video artist]) collaborating to create expressive artwork to unveil at the Deaf Way Festival and a word to accurately describe their artworks in relation to their deafness. These artists created a mural (below) acting as part of their signatures, serving as the first official artwork made under the De'VIA title.

(Patti Durr, HandEyes)

De'VIA follows a basic criteria of 4 elements:

Deaf/Deaf-Blind expression of affirmation, resistance, and/or liberation

View of the Deaf/Deaf-Blind experience in the world

Imagery/motifs/symbols of the Deaf Experience

Art, Activism, Aesthetics, and Authentic Expressions of the Deaf Experience

(Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture)

It can be identified through expression of the Deaf Experience or any variety of it, rather than by the deafness of the artist; in other words, all artwork created to communicate the Deaf Experience in any way is De'VIA, but not all artwork created by Deaf artists is. It can also be identified by Deaf artists' general tendencies to use bold colors with contrasting values, varied texturing, and exaggerated features in relation to hands and faces!!

(DeafArt.org)

some key De'ViA artworks by key Deaf artists!!

(i preface this with a slight body horror cw)

Bell School, Betty G. Miller

Ameslan Prohibited, Betty G. Miller

(part of the first show focused exclusively on art with Deaf Themes, 1972)

Family Dog, Susan Dupor

Art No. 2, Chuck Baird

(De'VIA exhibited at the 3rd and 4th Deaf Studies Conferences, 1993-1999)

Poetic Hand, Paul Johnston

(part of the first national touring exhibit on Deaf Culture Art, 1999)

(artwork timeline and events courtesy of DeafArt.org)

[Video ID: in a Home Depot, a woman is looking at a sign that says “We speak your language” under that are speech bubbles with the languages their representatives speak. The camera cuts back to her signing “Where is American Sign Language. The camera pans across the speech bubbles, then back to her. “Always! Why leave ASL out? ASL is a Language too. ASL should be there and also, ASL is the third most used language in United States and ASL is not there.” End ID]

Posted by @signedwithheart (on Instagram):

American Sign Language (ASL) is a language too. Just because it’s not spoken doesn’t mean it’s not a true language. ASL is just as much a language as any other.

It’s time for all places (especially airlines, I’m looking at all of you) to include ASL in the list of languages. Please update your language options and include American Sign Language. Thank you.

**September is Deaf Awareness Month.**

Also, Fingerspelling 101 Course is on SALE for $20 for Deaf Awareness Month! Code: SEPT. More info below. 👇🏼👇🏼

Fingerspelling 101 Course is great for those who haven’t learned the alphabet yet or for those who have recently but need to practice. It’s a mini self-paced course that focuses on learning & practicing the alphabet. It will greatly help improve your fingerspelling receptivity and make learning sign language much easier! The link to sign up is in bio @signedwithheart.

if anyone happens to have a deaf west american idiot bo*t or even just clips they’re willing to share i will be indebted to you for life

i can trade for other bo*ts (i have dwsa, jlp, bom, deh, falsettos, and bmc i believe) if that’s a thing that is required but please please please please

sincerely, a deaf person with an extremely intense emotional attachment to this musical and this production especially