Basic Sign Language to use while wearing a Face Mask
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- Deaf people are having a really difficult time understanding people wearing a face mask. Face masks are commonplace and compulsory in some cases thanks to the Covid 19 Pandemic. Learn some basic signs from British Sign Language (BSL) so you can communicate with deaf people.
Many deaf people rely on lip reading for communication and when everyone covers their face with a mask, this presents an obvious challenge. The signs in this video are designed to help you manage brief conversations with deaf people and avoid embarrassing and awkward situations.
Other things you can do to help communicate with deaf people include:
- Wearing a face mask with a clear window built in revealing your lip movements.
- Keep a notepad and pen handy to write down messages.
- Go into a room with less background noise.
- Consider if it's safe to temporarily remove your face mask for the duration of the conversation.
- Most importantly, please be patient.
Thanks for watching!
My friend has a deaf girlfriend so I’ve learnt a lot of sign language from them. What I would say is as a bus driver, learning sign language has helped me communicate with many deaf passengers which is great because I’ve built up a rapport with them. It’s great to be able to help them
This is so well presented! Clear, interesting, well-paced. Very helpful!
I work in a very busy NHS department supervising Reception staff . This is HUGELY helpful, so thank you ! I intend to raise the issue of clear masks with my Manager.
You're good at adapting to your audience. You're probably the first TH-cam that I've been able to properly learn off of. I've tried a few times over last couple of years but since finding your videos I've actually been able to remember more than random words that have slightly amusing actions (like bullshit or octopus xD)
Thank you for clarifying the dominant hand stuff as a left handed person I would always worry that in different hands signs would mean different things lol
I work in retail and have been getting lots of deaf customers I'd like to communicate better with, thank you!
Thanks very much. I’m going to send a link to this to friends and co-workers.
There are many people like me who have hearing loss and depend on lip reading to communicate, even though we don’t know sign language. If everyone knew a few of these basic signs, it would help us too.
I just started learning BSL during lockdown. Your videos are excellent. You are doing important work.
I've literally just started BSL course via work ( NHS
nurse) I'm finding your videos so helpful & have recommended you to my colleagues- thankyou!
Hi Dan, thank you so much for these videos. I am helping at a vaccine centre and used some basic signs today. The two people I signed to were so pleased I tried .
Hi I have just started BSL as I have always wanted to learn it. I have no real reason for learning it other than i enjoy it and it could be handy (pun intended) later on in life. I am absolutely loving your videos and am learning it so quickly thanks to you! Thanks so much!
Also even though I am right handed it seems that from watching your videos and trying to mirror it I have become left hand dominant. Would this be a problem?
@@goldieloxx5111 As long as you're consistent with it its fine :)
Brilliant. I’ve shared this with people I know and friends as they’re expressing an interest. You explain so clearly and it’s so easy to follow and replicate the signs you show. Many many thanks x
Amazing video as always. A friend with hearing loss told me how hard it was for him to communicate with people during covid. Terrible. You doing amazing job guys xxx Thank you!
So helpful. Thank you. I knew most of these signs but it's putting them together with connecting words that I'm sometimes unsure about.
I’ve started watching this Chanel to try and learn the basics so I can involve my deaf customer in conversation so she don’t feel left out and In my salon, picking it up much quicker than I thought through this great guy 👍
Hi Dan! Loving your videos. Could you do one for verbs? Like bathing, cooking, teaching... etc.
Great idea, I'll add to our to do list. Thanks for watching 🖐️
@@CommandingHands Thank you! 😊
I just wanted to say thank you and well done for making such a good video to teach BSL to everyone else, you are one of the few people that are doing this.
Thank you so much Commanding Hands for these videos. The shop I work at is making every effort to be more accessible to all customers with disabilities and a few staff want to learn BSL but it is very expensive and hard to find a course. So I have pointed them in the direction of these videos because they are very clear and so helpful for BSL. The man doing the signing is so good and extremely clear in his signing.
this man is so lovely, more of him please. I am finding this so good.
Im not deaf or hard of hearing but my mum works in a shop where alot of deaf or hard of hearing people come in and we can't understand what they are signing or saying because of their accent
Find it so much easier to take in when you explain it,thanks xx
This is great. I noticed a couple in a shop today, the lady had on a clear mask and the man was signing as was the lady. Thank you for this excellent and clear, slow instructions. 👍
Hi, I’m not deaf or hard of hearing but I’ve always wanted to learn sign language and this is my launch into learning it. I found this very helpful, maybe not the best to start learning but have to start somewhere.. nice clear instructions and sign I will definitely be checking out more videos in my attempt to progress in my learning 👍🏻
Perfect idea 🖤
This is very useful indeed. I was wondering about how deaf people may cope, and am attempting to learn some BSL. I've shared this to friends as it may also be of use to them...thank you!
your 100 words videos are very good for learning/ memorising vocabulary . The signs are are presented really well and the repetition has really helped. Thankyou 👍
Superb Video.Thanks!!
Good ideas!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! 👐
Thank you so much for this it’s so helpful !
Brilliant thank you xx
Good for this pandemic 👌🏻
I'm very deaf and would dearly love to learn sign language don't know any deaf people or where classes are?
I'm a bit of an actor and can copy and learn things up quickly, this video although aimed mainly to people to talk TO deaf people I learnt all of it just watch once!
Want/need more !?
Thank u this really helps
I know only the alphabet in Sign, but I've been watching your videos to extend my knowledge, these are great, a new subby here :)
Very helpful and easy to follow.
This is very helpful well paced and easy to follow I find very useful
love ur vid
That was so usefully
wow never heard his voice before, I assumed he was deaf.
Hello Dan, these videos have been so helpful for me to communicate over long distances with my mum and sister as they are both hard of hearing. If you haven’t yet, could you please do a video about the BSL structure? Like how in English, you would ask “What is your name?” Whereas in BSL, you would ask “Your/You name what?”
Your videos have been really helpful. My Sign Language skills have come on in leaps and bounds during lockdown. Is there any chance of you doing one relating to the Criminal Justice System?
Nice
For the signs that require both hands, are there alternatives that can be done with one hand? For example I have to walk with a cane and need one hand to support myself, which may make those quite difficult
Yea
Can you do a video on weather?
Lip reading has been a struggle in my life during Covid-19
I know British sign language myself
Suggested this on Twitter only few hours ago! 👍🏼👏🏼😷
The most powerful jutsu
i have a question, i know stuff like facial expressions (ex. raise your eyebrows, smile, etc) are really important in bsl but i have problems which make it difficult to do stuff like that on command, do you know if there are any possible alternatives or is it something i’d just have to try and do?
I'm curious: Why do you sign "you" in "Do you want an interpreter?", but not in "Do you want me to write it down?"?
very funny
🎥✌️😊🖖🤜🤛 .✌️
I hate it been deaf now i lip read so much can't hear a thing with everyone wearing masks
It would have been better if you kept the mask on, and showed the sign without talking but good video anyways