American Sign Language, ASL, Keepsake Carvings

Probably the best known American Sign Language sign is the "I Love You" sign (handshape). It is an easily recognized sign - made by celebrities and politicians, and often printed on t-shirts. Making the I Love You Sign blends the handshapes for the letters I, L and Y into one handshape.
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  • Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see.
    Mark Twain
  • I’ve always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn’t all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
    Marlee Matlin
  • In terms of a disability, I don’t view myself as having a disability…I function like any other hearing person can. My deafness does not deprive me of anything. I can do anything I want. Except maybe sing.”
    Summer Cider
  • Making the world a better place for the next Deaf generation—and for Deaf people now.
    Matthew S. Moore
  • The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.
    Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis
  • A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
    Michel de Montaign
  • We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to sit down and feel sorry for these “poor” children, knowing that we could have made a difference in their lives.
    Jean-Claude Adzalla
  • One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
    Camryn Manheim
  • Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?”
    Frank Herbert
  • I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.”
    Helen Keller
  • As long as we have Deaf people on earth, we will have signs... our beautiful sign language is the noblest gift God has given to Deaf people.
    George William Veditz, 1913
  • Just a thought….it is interesting to see that DEAF people can function in the hearing world very well while hearing people cannot function well in the DEAF world.
    Gil Eastma
  • Deaf people can do anything, except hear.”
    Dr. Frederick Schreibner

 

 

 

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