Create Photo Art Using American Sign Language
My paternal and maternal grandparents and my mother were deaf so my first language was American Sign Language.
Several years ago, my mother became ill and I took her to the emergency room. It was the beginning of dementia even though we were not aware of it yet.
The wait in the ER was F-O-R-E-V-E-R! and she became extremely restless.
To help keep her calm, I suggested we take pictures of her hand creating individual letters of the ABCs in American Sign Language (ASL).
She loved it and thankfully doing that passed the time.
We later printed out photos of the individual letters to spell out the names of my brothers, my mother’s cousins and her friends. We mailed them in “thinking of you cards.”
My mother enjoyed hearing from each one that they loved her special surprise gift. Sign language is beautiful and you do not have to be deaf to enjoy seeing your name spelled in ASL.