Spatial Organization I American Sign Language (ASL)
this course: Expand visual concepts in ASL with this intermediate level course. Learn to use spatial organization and surroundings creatively to express concepts accurately. Build relationships with Deaf individuals and stimulate interest in your storytelling. Enhance your signing skills by creating a three-dimensional world that both you and your listeners can see and relate to. Move people around in the signing space to establish relationships and give a quick perception of actions and locations. Join now and experience the excitement of expanding your visual storytelling abilities in ASL.
What you’ll learn
- Think visually.
- Use surroundings to speak creatively.
- Be confident to express concepts accurately.
- Stimulate interest.
- Build relationships with Deaf individuals.
When telling a story, or even relating a concept that is more elaborate than two or three sentences, it is often helpful to use spatial organization to help establish people or locations that can easily be referred back to throughout your story. If you could imagine that when you were telling a story, rather than it being two dimensional like a painting on a wall, the format is more three dimensional, almost like a board game laid out in front of you. This aspect of signing helps us to create a miniature world that both we and our listeners can see and relate to. It allows us to quickly make a reference to things that we have already discussed, and to establish relationships between people and places and things. Just like playing a board game, when you move your token, everyone knows who is who and where each player is located on the board at all times. Similarly, we can move people around in the signing space directly in front of us to give our listeners a quick and immediate perception of who is doing what to whom and where. This function of signing can be just as exciting as winning a game of monopoly!
Who this course is for:
- For the intermediate who want to expand visual concepts in ASL.
