Signing STEM
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kA useful dialog about ASL and captioning re: increasing numbers of people with disabilities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (abbreviated STEM by educator types).
Among the many resources in that discussion was the ASL-STEM project developing standardized ASL signs for common STEM jargon, to cut back on the extensive finger-spelling. I found this for dampened oscillation to be particularly lovely:
Description Non-dominant 1 hand faces out. Touched by tip of dominant hand, which then draws a tall oscillating curve that rapidly shortens to flat. At flat the dominant handshape changes from 1 to bent B, with "smooth" tongue thrust.
Among the many resources in that discussion was the ASL-STEM project developing standardized ASL signs for common STEM jargon, to cut back on the extensive finger-spelling. I found this for dampened oscillation to be particularly lovely:
Description Non-dominant 1 hand faces out. Touched by tip of dominant hand, which then draws a tall oscillating curve that rapidly shortens to flat. At flat the dominant handshape changes from 1 to bent B, with "smooth" tongue thrust.
