This experience offers you and your team the opportunity to join an interactive class that will introduce you to sign language and the Deaf community.
During this class, you and your team will actively participate by learning and practicing sign language. This class will cover how sign language is structured and how Deaf people think, with the goal of sensitizing you and your team to Deaf experiences. This organization uses Hungarian sign language during their sessions but will focus on the universal factors of sign language.
This class will cover concepts including:
- Visuality
- Spatial grammar
- Universal emotions and facial expressions
- Body language
- Gestures
- Non-verbal means of expression
- The role of non-verbal in human communication
- Motivated and conventional signs
- Shaping objects by hand
- Mouth reading
- Deaf thinking
- Shared attention
- Processing of visual stimuli
The agenda of this experience is as follows:
- Conversation Starter and Introduction to the World of Signs (15 minutes)
- Introduction to the Nonprofit, Purpose of the Session, Technical Details & Interpretation (15 minutes)
- Presentation About Sign Language and the Deaf Community (10 minutes)
- Mouth Reading Activity (5 minutes)
- Non-formal Activities and Sign Language Learning (30 minutes)
- Use and Practice of Signs
- Q&A (10 minutes)
- Conclusion & Wrap-up (5 minutes)
