Asthma is a chronic lung disease with symptoms of coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and rapid breathing.
My ASL Dictionary has a cartoon of my friend Shannon Stuart’s son, Emerson Douglas, dressed in his 2019 Guelph Gryphon’s Hockey Jersey illustrating the ASL hand sign for ASTHMA.
5 hands move forward and backward from the chest twice, a visual of the chest breathing.
The hand sign for BREATHE can also be with the A hands.
An addition to the book is the hand sign for INHALER, the hand-held portable device that delivers medicine to the lungs.
The thumb of the L hand by lips bends at the index knuckle, like pressing down on the inhaler device.
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