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Disclaimer for Mommy 'n Me Trilingual (ASL and Spanish) lessons
For some hearing people who teach American Sign Language (ASL) or variations using the same signs, their goal may be to profit. That is not the case here. Yes, I earn money for the time I spend because I have bills, a baby, and goals. I love what I do so much, I'd teach for free if I could afford do. I will when I can.
I teach the VALUE OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION using ASL and Spanish for support while promoting Deaf Culture Awareness and Cultural Diversity Acceptance.
My name is Señora Enesse and I am a Multilingual Intergenerational Global Community Liaison. I just want to help people learn how to break communication barriers so we can solve real world issues.
You live here in this world, you know what issues need to be worked on. I just want there to be a world worth inheriting for the generations to come. I love the idea of families spending quality time together while learning.
The best way to learn ASL is from a Culturally Deaf instructor. In no way am I trying to take potential students away from them because they use this language to survive. I use ASL to connect with and make friends within their community. I am not a Deaf (big D or little d) person. I am hearing. Focusing on learning effective communication skills is more effective to me when children can feel comfortable communicating with the adults in their lives.
Many hearing people are intrigued and want to learn how to sign, but may not know a Deaf
person or may not know one well enough to ask them to teach them. Some hearing people may feel nervous when taking a full class in silence (the way I learned from Deaf instructors).
I have over 200 alumni. Before I started teaching the parents, some of my students' parents would call me and describe the "hand motions / shapes" their children were doing. The level of excitement a child feels when they finally can express themselves is indescribable and therapeutic.
At the first private school where I began teaching the kids how to sign my oldest students were 12 and my youngest were 3 months. I spent 15 months at this school teaching trilingual lessons with very little English, but with lots of creative, imaginative, and entertaining games.
I worked closely with the Spanish teacher so that I could help her reinforce her lessons by teaching the same concepts in ASL from Spanish.
Most language courses only teach one language and how to understand/translate meanings. My course is meant to inspire you to feel confident to keep learning from native Spanish speakers and native ASL users, not to replace them. I want to teach you the basics using games and a curriculum that focuses on grammar, culture, and creativity so that you are inspired to create multicultural relationships/friendships with people in your community while raising a open-minded, community-oriented, multilingual children.
I teach what I call, "Loud Sign language and Spanish lessons" because I was a hearing child and I know that one of the hard
est things to do is to keep them quiet enough to focus during a silent lesson. That's why I have taken my observations/experiences and made them into a child friendly multilingual curriculum (taught to parents and early childhood educators).
You're right. Señora Enesse started teaching me and I'm a Tridigitalker!