Sign Language Skills for DHH (DHHE 0625Q)

Students in the DHH Sign Language Skills for Deafened or Hard of Hearing Adults course will be able to demonstrate a beginning conversational level of comprehension and expressive fluency using sign in English word order. Accurately demonstrate the sign language vocabulary and features in English word order sentences, dialogues, and stories. Formulate English sentences in sign and fingerspelling using conceptually accurate signs that are based on meaning. Describe appropriate behaviours around deaf or hard of hearing people. Describe specific technology that assists the deaf and hard of hearing. Explain the communication, access, educational, and employment issues of deaf and hard of hearing people.