Location
Homewood Suites by Hilton Newburgh-Stewart Airport
180 Breunig Road
New Windsor, NY 12553
Description
When signing, where should you be gazing? Do you look at the other person, or is it okay to look away? How do you know when a signer is providing information or narration vs. a characterization? Absent a signed referent and obvious body shift, how can you tell when one characterization ends and another begins?
Answers to all of these questions (and more) can be found in the often- overlooked topic of eye gaze and eye blinks. This workshop will provide a brief look at different types of eye gaze and eye blink behaviors in American Sign Language. Eye gaze and blink behaviors will be categorized, explained and presented with the latest research available. Video demonstrations of Deaf signers will be used to reinforce the presented materials.
Regardless of your level of fluency in ASL, this workshop can dramatically impact your work. You’ll never look at the eyes in the same way again!
Topics we will cover
- Utilize effective ASL eye gaze strategies for conversation regulation
- Identify and incorporate three types of eye gaze used in ASL narratives
- Explain the difference between periodic and voluntary eye blinks in ASL
- Identify characterizations (performatives) and sentence utterance boundaries as marked by eye behaviors
Three-and-a-half-hour workshop offering 0.35 CEUs in the Professional Studies category. Requires some content pre-knowledge.
Registration
For more information and registration, please visit the Sign Language Resources, Inc.‘s website