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eats-the-stars · 2 months ago

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just had a very transparent reminder that practice does create improvement. my sister asked me to make a sign language guide for my 5yo nephew's schoolteachers. and maybe i coulda printed a buncha shit out, but my nephew is 5 and gives some of his signs a personal flair that the internet diagrams just doesn't capture. so i spent a whole day hand-drawing his most commonly used signs, and buddy, if you've ever struggled to draw hands, you can imagine the difficulty there is in drawing hands signing shit. point is, though, i was given the opportunity to mark the clear different in the quality of my hand-drawing skills from the first sign card to the last.

so yeah if you want to rapidly improve your hand-drawing skills, try to hand-draw a sign language guide using pictures of your own hands forming the signs, and internet sign drawings that range from excellent to complete dog-shit (no shade tho I almost cried trying to draw the sign for "friends" that one's a real bitch.

#drawing #ASL #also my sister works at the school and she said his teachers were legit close to tears when they pulled the guide out of his backpack #apparently they don't often get this kind of assistance without even asking from a guardian #sister was also recently grousing about parents who were trying to convince the school to...get this...#to NOT give their daughter access to the AAC device the school provides so she's forced to talk to communicate #oh and an AAC is basically an ipad with text to speech and little pictures kids can tap to communicate #my nephew has one on him 24/7 because he can't talk #so far the doctors are pretty sure it's a rare kind of oral and verbal apraxia #so basically difficulty with fine motor control of his mouth necessary for speech. he also struggles to chew due to this #but yeah. lots of disabled kids use these devices to communicate. nonverbal autistic kids is probably the example most ppl know best #although there's a ton of kids with more ambiguous diagnoses who use them too #but yeah my hand drawing skills went from a 2 to like a 5 by the time i finished that guide

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