Practice sheet 37.A
1. COCHLEAR-IMPLANT, YOU AGAINST?
2. SUPPOSE SHIRT NONE, SHOES NONE, WILL STORE ALLOW YOU ENTER?
3. SUPPOSE STUDENT CHEAT TEST, YOU THINK SHOULD THROW SCHOOL?
4. YOUR GOAL, YOUR FATHER, (or wife, or husband, or ______) GOAL SOMETIMES CONFLICT?
5. WHY CAT LIKE DESTROY FURNITURE?

Practice sheet 37.B
6. HOW YOU SIGN D-O?
7. DOCTOR DUTY WHAT?
8. CAR MOTOR CAN #FIX YOU?
9. RESEARCH PAPER, YOU ENJOY WRITE?
10. YOU LECTURE CL:5 "scads-of" BEFORE?

Practice sheet 37.C
11. NEWS ARTICLE YOU "CLIP OUT" SAVE? 
12. SUPPOSE YOUR MOM PRISON, YOU SHOCKED?
13. WHY PEOPLE STEAL?
14. YOUR MOM HIDE DRINK-(alcohol), SUSPECT YOU? (Do you suspect your mom is a closet drinker?)
15. YOU THINK THIEF SHOULD JAIL 30 YEAR?

Practice sheet 37.D
16. YOUR SHOES, HOW OFTEN WEAR-OUT?
17. YOU THINK FUTURE-(someday) YOU MAYBE BECOME NURSE?
18. PRISON, YOU THINK SHOULD BUILD MORE?
19. SPEAK/"HEARING" SCHOOL YOU? (Did you go to a public school?)
20. WORK MAJOR WHAT?  (What is your line of work?)

NOTE: The sign "CLIP-OUT" can be done by using your index and middle finger like a pair of scissors. Use your "scissors" to cut around the perimeter of the article. 

NOTE: CL:5 "scads-of" can be used to mean almost any large group of people, animals, or things. If you use an intense facial expression it can mean a "huge" number of people, animals, or things
The sign "scads of" can be done by forming palm down claw shapes, and moving the hands forward while using an intense facial expression.

Objectives:
Discussion:
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
Degrees of Hearing Loss

Note:  There is a difference between the sign for a medical doctor and an "academic" doctor.  While the Deaf community is not overly concerned with titles, if you are introducing someone to an audience you would simply spell the letters "D-R" and then the name.
In most everyday communication we don't use titles. We tend to use name signs instead.

Note:  These concepts all use the same sign: motor engine factory machine

Question:  How do you sign a yes no question that ends in "MAD?"
Response:  Sometimes the y/no facial expression is more important than the emotion facial expression.  For example, in the question, "Are you mad?" you would sign "YOU MAD" while using raised eyebrows and a question expression rather than furrowed eyebrows and a mad expression.
Of course it would be relatively easy and perfectly acceptable to switch the order of signs in that sentence to be:  "MAD, YOU?" and use a "mad" facial expression while signing "MAD" and then raise the eyebrows for the sign YOU.
Additionally, it is also okay to sign YOU with eyebrows raised and then sign MAD with them lowered.  When I do it that third way though I find myself thrusting my head forward a bit right after I sign MAD--as a way of indicating that I'm asking a yes/no question even though I'm ending with a "mad" facial expression.
Finally you could also repeat the pronoun at the end:  YOU MAD YOU? The repeated pronoun method is a very common way of handling yes/no questions.

Question:  Why do Deaf people have signs for MUSIC, and LOUD?
Response:  Being Deaf doesn’t mean you are "totally" incapable of hearing.
Deaf means you are not able to use your sense of hearing for everyday communication purposes.
"Hard of Hearing" means you are not able to communicate in many everyday situations but you can in some.
To better understand what it is like to be deaf, let's consider "blindness."
At what point does a person become blind?
Everything is black?
No…it is vision acuity of 20 / 300 -- meaning such a person can see at 20 feet what a person with 20/20 eyesight can see 300 feet away.
At some point a person's vision becomes so impaired that it really doesn't help them much in their everyday life.  At that point they are "blind."
Also some people have tunnel vision, which is to say they can only see things within a limited range of vision.  Other people are color blind or tint blind which means they see shapes and contrasts just fine, but not color or not certain shades of color.  Also, some people who can't see well in dim light can see just fine in bright light.
Hearing loss works the same way…meaning some deaf or hard of hearing people can hear at 2 feet away what you can hear at 30 feet away and so forth. Or it might be complex.  For example, my hearing graph (audio-graph) is such that I hear almost normally on the very high and low tones….but not very well at all for the conversational tones.  That is why I can hear foot taps and can know that students are talking but often not know what they are saying.

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