Writing Non Manual Signals

[Adam Frost]

The best page that we have at the moment is http://www.signbank.org/iswa/. This is a page of all of the symbols in the ISWA broken up into categories, groups, and then individual symbols. There is only a short description of each symbol. It isn't the best, but it is thorough.

Now that you mentioned about the mouth movements, I looked at it more closely. I think you want to have the finishing mouth to be protruded open mouth rather than a slightly tighter open mouth, which makes the wrinkles that the lines around represent. In that case, I think the final mouth should be this:



I did a little playing with overlapping the heads and noticed that the overlapping couldn't occur very well without covering up the above mouthing symbol. Then I remembered that there were "topless" head circles, so I decided to try it out and see what happens. What do you all think about this?



Adam

On Apr 12, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Natasha Escalada-Westland wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I (think) I attached a writing of the sign "finish" with vertical heads.  I like the 
> simplicity of showing the initial handshape with movement only.  What do you 
> think?
> 
> Also, is there a lesson page that describes or shows pictures of all the face and 
> mouth symbols available in the SignMaker on SignPuddle?  I'm not sure what some 
> of the symbols represent.  There is an older, online set of written lessons I have 
> found, but it doesn't include everything available in the SignMaker pallette.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Natasha Escalada-Westland

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