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This American Sign Language chart outlines a few common signs and explanations that may help with communication where fingerspelling can be difficult to get your meaning across. You can find the following signs and explanations on the chart: BOY, GIRL, MAN, WOMAN, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHO, WHY, HOW, NO, YES, FOOD, HUNGRY, and BATHROOM.

This basic sign language chart is especially useful to hang in workplaces and other areas where people may come in contact with a deaf person. It can also be used as a handout at ASL related get-togethers or to give your friend if you’d like him or her to learn some quick ASL signs.

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Michelle Jay is the founder of StartASL.com. She earned a Bachelor‘s Degree in Deaf Studies, with an emphasis in teaching, from one of the nation’s premier programs at California State University, Northridge. Michelle is a published author and has contributed thought-provoking articles to academic publishers such as Greenhaven Press. Her unique articles have done much to support Deaf Culture, and have been printed in resource publications such as American Chronicle and Perspectives on Diseases & Disorders: Deafness & Hearing Impairments.
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    1. Well I Sign language but people don’t understand that people don’t hear much you know but I’m trying to teach them how to do it so if you like it comet please describe thank youWell I like sign leads but people people
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