Unspoken language

Usage examples of signing.

She would never be able to communicate as well as a deaf person, she explained, and her signing would not be as crisp or as rapid.

If we started this silent signing business, goodness knows how she would have turned out.

You should have seen him after a few years, signing furiously all over the place, just as fluent as a deaf person.

Some days they went outside and climbed around the crab apple tree, and I saw her signing away.

Hugo and I fumbled our way through signing, and clear wore out that ASL dictionary but Jennie seemed totally uninterested.

And then Sandy started two-handed signing, and I found myself doing it.

He became extraordinarily fluent in ASL and he and Jennie carried on conversations together, he signing so fast that one could hardly see his fingers move, while Jennie watched spellbound, and then fumbled her reply, always eager to keep up.

Her signing is rather sloppy and sometimes I wonder if it is signing at all.

The problems required only the minimum of signing ability, well within the range of the colony chimps.

Now that my signing is improved, we have devised a kind of catechism, to teach her religious concepts.

He wanted to know what our other children thought and I told them about Sandy signing with Jennie.

She kept signing for one, and someone asked what she was saying, Hugo translated, and then immediately everyone was up and waving about for a waiter, calling for a banana.

Miller assembled a team of psychologists to study a two-hour videotape of Jennie signing to her trainer, Pamela Prentiss of the Tufts University Center for Primate Research.

When we stopped at a light, and Jennie saw something interesting in the car next to us, she would scream with delight and start signing and hooting and waving her hands.

Miller got ahold of some videotape of Jennie signing on some pretext and then analyzed it.