Re: Mathematical ASL?

As the parent of somebody who is deaf I have learnt in pracice that the
problem of the deaf is not so much the lack of sound and hearing, but
the lack of language skills.
As far as I know the University of Gallaudet is the only one in the
world that offers classes entirely in sign language. It might be a good
idea to contact them. Although they do not have interpreters (I do not
think so), they might be able to provide a few guidelines.
David C. Ullrich wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:57:59 -0700, William Elliot
> <marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, David C. Ullrich wrote:
> >
> >> I have a deaf student in an "advanced" class. He has an
> >> interpreter rendering ASL, great.
> >>
> >> But it's occurred to me that there may be a problem here,
> >> because I'm not speaking English in class, I'm speaking
> >> "mathematical English". For example "sequence" and
> >> "series" are synonyms in English, so I'd guess that
> >> they might be translated to ASL in the same way,
> >
> >> Or does someone have experience/suggestions on what
> >> to do about this is general?
> >>
> >Talk to the interpreter about your concerns.
>
> Golly, thanks, I hadn't thought of that.
>
> Think about the problem for a second. She's not a
> mathematician. I intend to explain things like the
> fact that "series" and "sequence" are not synonyms
> in math, "bound" and "limit" are not synonyms, etc.
> How is she going to know the _correct_ translation
> of such terms, or indeed whether there is such a thing,
> since she's not a mathematician and presumably the people
> she talks to about such matters are not mathematicians
> either?
>
>
>
> ************************
>
> David C. Ullrich

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