Signing Friends Cadette/Senior Girl Scout IPP Girl Scouts of the South Jersey Pines

1. **Learn about the origin/history of the American Manual Alphabet and American Sign Language (ASL).**

2. **Be able to explain the difference between the following types of manual languages:**
   

   American Sign Language (ASL)
   Signed English
   Signed Exact English
   

3. **Learn the American Manual Alphabet and understand its role in manual communication. Practice finger spelling with a partner until you can fluently spell your name, the town in which you live, and the names of five friends.**

4. **Learn the Girl Scout Promise or Girl Scout Law in sign language. Share this with a group.**

5. **Do a related service project, e.g. volunteer at a school where deaf children are taught, or volunteer to hold an activity time for deaf children.**

6. Learn about operating a TTD or TTY and place at least one phone call using same.

7. Choose a category (e.g. relatives, animals, foods, feelings, etc.). Using ASL, be able to sign at least ten words from your chosen category.

8. Plan a signed ceremony, e.g. flag ceremony including the Pledge of Allegiance, Girl Scout Promise, and song.

9. Learn three simple songs in ASL and teach them to a group.

10. Learn to count using ASL.

11. Read a book about someone who is deaf or who has a hearing problem.

12. Visit with someone who is deaf or who has a deaf relative. Plan some questions to ask before the visit.

13. Plan a simple signed conversation.

14. Keep a scrapbook about situations involving the deaf community, e.g. newspaper articles, stories, new advances. Share this with a group.

15. Take a short trip wearing earplugs. Take a friend for safety. Then reverse roles. Share what you learned from your experience.

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Resource Materials:

Manual Alphabet and Signs:

1. A Show of Hands, by Mary Beth Sullivan and Linda Burke
2. Brownie Handbook
3. Finger Spelling Fun, by David A. Adler
4. Handtalk: An ABC of Finger Spelling and Sign Language, by Remy Charlip and Mary Beth Miller
5. Handtalk Zoo, by George Ancona and Mary Beth Miller
6. Indian Sign Language, by Robert Hofsinde
7. Indian Signs and Signals, by George Fronval and Daniel Dubois
8. My First Book of Sign, by Pamela J. Baker
9. North American Indian Sign Language, by Karen Liptak
10. Sesame Street Sign Language ABC, with Linda Bove
11. Sesame Street Sign Language Fun, with Linda Bove
12. Sign Langage Talk, by Laura Greene and Eva Barash Dicker
13. Sign Language: A First Book, by Laura Greene and Eva Barash Dicker

Games:

1. Finger Spelling Fun, by David A. Adler
2. Sign Language: A First Book, by Laura Greene and Eva Barash Dicker

Stories:

1. Jessi's Secret Language (The Babysitters Club Book #16), by Ann Martin
2. Sign Language: A First Book (Chapter 4), by Laura Greene and Eva Barash Dicker
3. Words in Our Hands, by Ada B. Litchfield

Songs:

1. Brownie Handbook
2. Brownies' Own Songbook
3. We Change the World (cassette), by Melinda Caroll
4. We Change the World (VHS, signing instruction only)
5. Wee Sing Fun 'n' Folk, by Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp (cassette and book)
6. Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays, by Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp (cassette and book)
7. Wee Sing and Play, by Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp (cassette and book)
8. Wee Sing Silly Songs, by Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp (cassette and book)

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