Story Books with Sign Languange "Translation"

Assalamualaikum wbt and good day everyone....

This means "Assalamualaikum" .

My mom has finished her Degree in Special Education and she had sign language course. As an assignment she had to make up a story as a schoolchild would, but she has to provide sign language translation of the story. I helped to illustrate the signs for that assignment. We included the full text of the story, and on the other page we arranged the signs and underneath the signs we indicate what individual signs means.

One day mom said that the might want to write children stories or adapt simple folk stories, translate them properly to proper sign languages like BIM (Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia)/ MSL (Malaysian Sign Language) or KTBM (Kod Tangan Bahasa Malaysia) and publish them as story books. I used to help her illustrate, so I was really excited to help with the signs, or perhaps we can include big colourful pictures illustrating the storyline too!

For my dear friends who have family members / friends who use sign language... (because they are deaf/mute/ just for fun)... do you think this will be helpful?

• For the deaf/mute children, they can have fun reading stories with picture and still be encouraged to use proper language, increase their vocabularies and associate the words with the signs.
  
• For educator, as a teaching tool.
• For parents, can use to practice to sign, or can even assist in reading bedtime stories to child!
• Friends and anyone interested also can benefit from the book....

(It all about education and improve signing skills but not just for the child.)

Or do you think, as a book is for reading, might as well let it contain just words... signing should be taught by action, not reading.......

Or do you have any suggestions? Or have you ever find books like this before???
Educators, any take on this?


Thanks for your support!!!! We are really looking forward to commence this project! (It will be in Bahasa Malaysia by the way.

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Some useful links:
Malaysian Federation of the Deaf

Lets learn a basic signs!
"Selamat Jalan" aka "bye bye"

Kebahagiaan~

Assalamualaikum wbt...

Adela selak2 satu buku lama ni... adela sikit kata2 yang pernah tertulis pada satu penerimaan satu masa dulu.Dikongsikan.

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Kebahagiaan tak hanya datang dari apa yang dimiliki,
atau dari nikmat yang jatuh ke atas diri,
tak juga hanya kerna kasih yang diberi,
atau ikatan yang dikongsi...

Tapi, baru saja kusedari,
Kebahagiaan jua dirasa,
dari ikhlasnya hati yang gembira,
atas kegembiraan orang lain...
Pada saat itu, kegembiraan dan kebahagiaan itu... milik aku juga.

-------- BD

Opthalmology Examination : Romanticised

Girl: Look into my eyes, tell me what you see...
Boy: I see you, the whole of you... (general xm)
But can YOU see me? And all the beautiful little things around us? (Visual acuity)
Look here, look there, yeah, follow my finger... (Ocular movement)
You don't have to squint, do you dear? (squint)
For your eyes are lovely, the way they stare back at me. (exopthalmos/proptosis/sunken eyes)

She was shy, she lowered her eyelids. (ptosis/ectropion/entropion/swelling)
Then smiling faintly, battling her eyelashes. (eyelashes/ectropion/entropion)
One eyelash fell into her eyes,and it becomes watery and red. (conjunctiva/discharge)
So he came nearer, looking under her eyelids (foreign body, papillae dll)
And seen through her eyes like the glass on the window, so smooth, so clear. (cornea, no cloudyness, no ulcer)
Then deeper he went, like entering a new chamber, looking through a new angle. (Anterior chamber, depth, angle, clear, x blood/pus)
Where her blue iris greeted him (iris) into the blackish mystery of her pupils. (size, shape, PEARLA, RAPD)
She was staring sharp like lenses, focusing on him. (lense, phakic/aphakic,position,opacity)

Then he stopped, ,"Wait my dear."

He took out his opthalmoscope, and studied her vitreous humour and fundus. ( yeah, looking at her optic disc, retina, macula, vessels and all...)

He dumped her... too much pathology.

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How do you like it?
Had fun making it, okay... back to reading for my OPTHAL final....
Wish me luck,kay? I mean, pray for me.