Originally Posted by
dhammer53
How often do you see people signing when you fly?
In all my 20 years of flying for business/pleasure, I've never seen anyone sign.
How often has another signer (is this the expression?) 'explained' things to you; or, to airline personnel?
I'm asking because when I was in college, I took a course and was able to sign. A local community college is offering ASL. Will sign language come back to me (like riding a bike)
, or do you think I'll be starting from scratch?
I still remember a couple of signs, and one of them is not nice.
So, I don't often see Deaf people traveling at airports... but here's my reasoning.
Most of the time, people travel by themselves on an airplane. Why would a Deaf person be signing to themselves!?!?!?
Secondly, as someone mentioned before, people are texting a lot now-a-days. Even if flight personal was assisting a deaf person, they'd probably text on the device, or show them pictures. OR, make sure they saw their safety video in CC, etc.
As for your last question, depending on how many years you took the language, and how often you used it, etc it will either come back no problem, or you will definitely have brush up on some signing videos
