The 'Switched at Birth' cast on their favorite words in ASL 

Agreed! I find this show inspiration in that department.

I love Switched at Birth for well one, the show, and two because I'm currently learning ASL and I guess this show is a great way to learn new vocab.

I know sign language all my parents r deaf

Me 2

jermaine bryant "All your parents?" You have more than 2....?

Mckenzie Morris thats cool and amazing. you made her day.

Mckenzie Morris aw that's so sweet

That's amazing

That's so awesome, good for you for putting in the effort! I always say that people who aren't hard of hearing can easily learn the language, but those who are hard of hearing can't exactly "learn" to hear and speak English! Great job Mckenzie, you are a good person! :)

Awww...that's super cool! Yes, sign language is amazing...and it's something everybody should (want to) learn :-)

I think I saw somewhere she has a syndrome/disorder where she has intermittent hearing, but she makes a deaf accent really well. Especially since she's the only deaf character on the show we hear speak on a regular basis.

Erin Aulfinger She has Meniere's Disease so at times she has very good hearing and can hear very clearly and other days she may hear as if things are stopped up. Her hearing will decline gradually over the years and she'll be dependent on hearing aids by the time she's 30 (if she's not already using them regularly). I don't know her exact level of hearing but typically those with Meniere's are what I've described above. Some can go years without ever needing hearing aids and some don't even know they have it until they get older.

Thanks for the info! I watched a video of her briefly explaining it a looong time ago and only recently started watching again, so I'd forgotten the name.

If you look up Ménière's disease on RU-vid you can see some in depth medical videos about it. It's really interesting actually

IfYou'reABird I'mABird I'm Hard of hearing/deaf,I've been wearing hear aids for 10 years,I May do have a Deaf accent

SunnyPrincess owl b r u h

It is totally beautiful! I love the thought that must have gone into coming up with signs for each word, and how many of them actually look like what they are in real life, like the signs they showed for mosquito and candle and stiletto. I love the sign for 'understand' for this reason, like a little lightbulb popping up.

When i was a baby i lost my hearing just not all the way. I was supposed to have hearing aids too. I never got them. I was tought American sign languag but i forgot most of it. This show is teaching me sign language again.

SunnyPrincess owl I'm watching the show now and I'm paying alot of attention to the sign language

Manuel Valencia Also same 😂

Manuel Valencia same :P

sameeee :)

Manuel Valencia same

Manuel Valencia me too

Faking a deaf accent is actually pretty offensive.

@@FutureBereaAlumn get over it

Merenemo 97 I did too ... 😅

Merenemo 97 she's hard of hearing

Love Music Soul Wow really? Another thing I didn't know 😅

There was an episode where they were in a parallel world where the girls were never switched. Daphne spoke clearly, and that's when I knew she wasn't fully deaf.

Last episode in season 3

Jasmina Malowanyj daphne too

Erika T. No, actually the actress who plays Daphne knew sign language before. Because she's hard of hearing and she learned incase she loses her hearing fully.

Katie, who plays Daphne, a lot of her family members are actually deaf and have the same condition as her (menieres disease) so she was raised with both languages. She is currently hard of hearing, but will eventually fully lose it. It also had loads of other symptoms, vertigo being one of them.

Most the hearing actors learned just for the show! the condition that made Regina stop signing in the show is a real condition the actress got due to learning to sign for the show, due to repetitive motions of rehearsing lines over and over.

Katie is deaf

Ashley Keller These were the only actors working on the day I was on set to shoot this video.

@caz no, Katie is hearing not hard of hearing nor deaf too.

Ashley Keller Okay. I understand how you felt about that however it's so great that they learn American Sign language. They shared how they feel about their experience of ASL. That's why Danielle Turchiano recorded this video.

+Ashley Keller Emmet is actually deaf and I'm pretty sure that his mother is too.

My husband's parents had just the idea, when my husband went to school, that he ONLY learned to talk. While he speaks very well, his hearing is almost totally gone now (I think they did a disservice to him not allowing him to sign...even tho he picked up alot) Sign is a beautiful thing to watch and the kids today are learning to talk AND sign....bilingual...how many of us can say that!!!!

I hear ya. My speech was fine until I turned 1-2 yrs of age and my speech became incomplete and or inaudible. Drs. discovered my left ear drum was perforated thus making me hard of hearing. I had to get surgery to fix it, and even after I still had to go to speech therapy class Which was during school so i understand exactly how daphne felt with kids looking at you weird. I had to also learn sign language and Brielle as apart of speech and audiology classes. Although I am older and hearing is fine, it has been a while since I signed So I teach my kids and husband sign language when I can. Such a beautiful lanaguage. My professor in college would have me do the test for his students learning sign language and they always said " your faces are soooo expressive as if you were really deaf"...oh but if only they knew.

It IS really important...It was never offered as a course in my school which was sad...but thanks to the show (and RU-vid), I am learning, brushing up, and getting better with my ASL :) I have to modify most signs cuz I have use of only my left hand, though.

....it's spelled Daphne but great story

Sami Johnson Scroll down, I have interviewed Sean Berdy in the past. On the day I was on set to shoot this ASL video, though, he was not working so I could not talk to him then.

I think he is really def

+Valeria Sanchez Ochoa and?...

+Sami Johnson It's kind of different to ask what your 'favorite words' are in a language you're learning versus your first language.

He needs an interpreter to be interviewed so sometimes he might not be able to have a interpreter. Or he might not want to.

Who was the girl in the red shirt? :)

Same

Criminal Minds 😫🙌🏻

they are robots

She's sort-of-deaf... She got Ménière's disease when she was 17 (she wasn't born deaf so she doesn't have the deaf people accent, she just acts so on the show) which makes her completely deaf on some days but on other days she could also hear slightly and sometimes she can hear clearly but it varies from day to day.. hasn't anyone ever noticed her AMAZING laugh?? it's so loud an infectious!!

incandescent silver It's actually really really hard to say things in a deaf "accent" I've been hard of hearing since birth and I had to work so hard to not have that kind of accent, but now I can't do it, whenever I try, I always sound more like Stitch from Lilo and Stitch. But good on her for being an amazing actress, her sign language is so fluent (coming from someone who does sign language), you'd think that she was born deaf or something along those lines.

incandescent silver Errr. You do know that it caused deafness. Anyone can go deaf in their time of life. So to say a "deaf people accent" is actually quite offending. What, they can't talk? Umm.. Do research. Understand the culture and everything before you even go talking about accents..

I actually do know the culture more than you realize, I grew up in the deaf culture, I'm hard of hearing and I grew up knowing ASL and my parents and I know people who are deaf, so FYI, I do know my stuff, and I don't need to do the research because I'm part of it, So do NOT tell me what to do when it comes to me knowing about stuff, it is a fact that people who have hearing loss, in fact do have an accent, and it's not a bad thing, it's just part of who we are. So you can back off about knowing everything about the deaf culture. Deaf people can talk, and they are pretty dang awesome, I'd far rather be deaf than hard of hearing or hearing. I lost my hearing when I was born, and I know that anybody can lose their hearing at any point in their life. Maybe you need to learn a little more about someone before you go making judgements on what they say.

incandescent silver Oh no, it's totally okay, what you said is totally true, She won't have a deaf "accent" because she wasn't born with it, know what I mean? No, no, I didn't mean what I said towards you, it was towards ActualReality86 and what she said about me needing to research. I'm so happy though, that you're so interested in using ASL, I encourage you to take some ASL classes if there are any in your area, it's really neat to learn from what I've heard (I've known it since birth, so I don't knwo any different) it really is a beautiful language, I think people on RU-vid have also put up videos of lessons in ASL, maybe give those a try? Maybe a good first step as opposed to diving head first into a class. I don't know but good luck all the same!

she has a device for her mouth that helps

plus she has deaf family members

What type of device is this? :)

Same

I'm addicted

And Vanessa played a few episodes in Grey's Anatomy! Oh, and Liam and Chef Jeff are also in Grey's, haha. aannnddd I think most people know this but Lea Thompson (Kathryn) was in Back to the future! so fun finding the actors in various show/movies without meaning to xD

@@AshesFeu Omg! I didn't know that 😂

Katie Leclerc is fluent in sign language, and did not learn it on the set, you can guess that quite easily in the video.

Angharad Frost Definately, and she mimics a good Deaf accent as well.

Susan W. Katie is hard of hearing, with hard of hearing family, so she has been studying ASL for a long time :)

Emmett in switched at birth

she's a CODA. Do you know anything ?^^^^^^^

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Yeah in my ASL I class, our book had signs California style so our teacher had to teach us the signs that are different in San Antonio since there are no ASL books San Antonio style. But you're right it's not that much of a difference. :) Still love learning as much ASL as I can!

I have Texas style

the show ended sadly, it won't have anymore seasons

me to

so is Emmett

So is Daphne. And Travis

+Koala Farts well, Katie Leclerc and Ryan Lane

Daphne is hard of hearing not actually deaf

So is emmett...

Michaëla Berding A vocal coach probably helped her get that dialect. It's difficult to do by itself.

+Kuro Trần Practice.

***** She's hard of hearing. So, sometimes her hearing will be gone and it'll be like she's deaf.

+Kayla Lee (ThatCrayCrayFish) hard of hearing is not a sometimes-hearing, sometimes-deaf thing. it's being able to hear, just significantly less than the average (hearing) person.

+Cassie Martinez Yes, but for Katie's specific condition (meiners, I think it is. Sp?) this seems to be true.

+Kayla Lee (ThatCrayCrayFish) oh I did not know that I figured it was just hearing loss whoops. thanks for clearing that up haha

yeah it would really come in HANDY if you NEDED it

Leigh Daniels lol