ASL Occupations Professions Level 2

ASL Occupations and Professions Summary

• Engineer: Sign for "Measure" with dominant hand wiggling up and down is combined with agent marker.
• Worker: Combination of signs for "work" and "agent".
• Carpenter: Sign involves "wood" plus agent marker.
• Teacher: Sign incorporates "teach" alongside agent marker.
• Student: The sign for "student" includes "agent".
• Cop/Police Man/Woman: Sign not provided.
• Physicist: Involves signing "Physics" followed by the agent marker.
• Musician: The sign is based on "Music" plus agent marker.
• Florist: Involves the sign for "Flower" combined with agent marker.
• Farmer: Incorporates terms for "Farm" alongside descriptors for dirtiness plus agent.
• Dancer: Sign for "dance" combined with agent marker.
• Chef: Involves "cook" plus agent or alternatively spelled out as C-H-E-F.
• Manager: Sign includes "Control" with agent marker.
• Custodian: The sign for "Clean" is combined with agent marker.
• Artist: Involves signing "Art" plus agent.
• Airplane Pilot: Sign for "Airplane" combined with agent marker.
• Advisor/Counselor: Sign involves "Advise" plus agent marker.
• Actor/Actress: Incorporates the sign for "Act" with agent marker.
• Cashier: The sign mimics the motion of pushing buttons on a cash register plus agent marker.
• Accountant: Sign involves "Count" with agent marker.
• Military: Sign is represented by tapping a rifle twice.
• Lawyer: The dominant hand in L-handshape slides down the palm of a non-dominant flat hand with agent marker.
• Mechanic: Sign features the depiction of a wrench (twists twice) followed by agent marker.
• Optometrist: Sign combines "Eye" with "Doctor".
• Dentist: Sign involves "Teeth" with agent marker; alternative version noted.
• Electrician: Includes "Electric" plus agent marker.
• Boss: Sign represented by a "C" handshape on the shoulder.
• Mathematician: Involves the sign for "Math" with agent marker.
• Author/Writer/Journalist: Sign depicts writing on paper combined with agent marker.
• Doctor: Sign features a "D" taking a pulse.
• Nurse: Sign not provided.
• Waitress/Waiter: Combines the sign for "bring/carry" with agent marker.
• Biologist: Sign incorporates "biology" (alternate CL-B towards the body) with agent marker.
• Designer: Combines "design" plus agent marker.
• Business Person: Sign not provided.
• Fisherman: Involves signing "fish" plus agent marker.
• Interpreter: Sign includes "interpret" (dominant hand wiggles) combined with agent marker.
• Pharmacist: Sign features "Medicine" as if crushing a pill plus agent marker.
• Photographer: Sign for "camera" combined with agent marker.
• Physical Therapist: Involves the sign for "body" combined with "help" or abbreviated "PT".
• Pilot: Sign is simply "pilot".
• Principal: Sign not provided.
• Programmer: Sign includes "program" (CL-P over CL-B) and agent marker.
• Psychologist: Sign not provided.
• Scientist: Involves the sign for "science" (alternate A hands) plus agent marker.
• Teacher: Repeated, includes "teach" with agent marker.
• Technician: Sign for "tech" combined with agent marker.
• Trainer: Sign involves "practice".
• Volunteer: Depicts pinching a shirt.
• Economist: Involves upside down CL-E combined with agent marker.
• Entrepreneur: The sign for "business" (CL-B) combined with agent marker.
• Sales Person: Sign includes "sell" plus agent marker.
• Bank Teller: Spelled out as B-A-N-K T-E-L-L-E-R.
• Babysitter: features "baby" followed by a sign for "keep" (strike K on top of another K) plus agent marker.
• Funeral Director, Judge, Housekeeper, Model, Postal Worker, Receptionist: Signs not provided.
• Vet: Spelled out as V-E-T.