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People use sign language for a lot of reasons – can you learn to fingerspell, and sign your way to success?

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/sign-with-me/

Resources

Device with access to the internet
Copies of the fingerspelling alphabets (optional)
Access to a printer (optional)

See the video for additional guidance scouts.org.uk/activities/sign-with-me/

Before you begin
- Make sure you’ve risk assessed your meeting, and also have a COVID-19 safe risk assessment that’s been agreed by your line manager. You can check out more detailed guidance here.
- Download (and print out, if needed) enough copies of the right handed and left handed fingerspelling alphabets, and ‘Hello, my name is’ sheets that everyone can see them. [One copy between two or three people is usually fine. You could laminate the sheet to make it easy to clean.]

Instructions

Learn a phrase
1. Everyone should sit in a distanced circle with copies of the BSL fingerspelling alphabet.
2. The whole group should practice their alphabet together – the person leading the game can show everyone how to make a letter, and then the group can copy.
3. Once the group has practised the alphabet together, everyone should take a few moments on their own to practise fingerspelling their name.
4. Everyone should get back in the circle, and practise signing ‘Hello, my name is’.
5. Everyone should put the two parts of the phrase together. Now, they can introduce themselves, and understand someone else telling them their name.

Practise your phrase with a game
1. Everyone should move around to mix up – they could run, skip, or dance.
2. When the leader makes the sign for ‘sign’, everyone should get into a pair with the closest person to them. Remind everyone to stay at a safe distance from their partner.
3. The pairs should take it in turns to introduce themselves.
4. Keep playing until everyone is confident introducing themselves, and understanding a word someone else is fingerspelling.

Take it further
Learn longer phrases in BSL - like the Promise. You could use British Sign’s vocabulary sheet creator to build new sentences or phrases to try.

Tags

• Disability Awareness
• sign language

Badge Links

• Communicator - Disabilities
• Disability Awareness - Communicating
• Disability Awareness - Fingerspelling
• Disability Awareness - Sign language