To sign diabetes in ASL, hold your dominant hand flat with the fingertips at your chin, palm toward you, and brush the fingers down off the chin twice, as in sweet. Then close the hand into a fist with the thumb pointing up and hold it in front of the shoulder.
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How to sign it
Handshape: a flat hand first, then a fist with the thumb up.
Location: the chin, then in front of the shoulder.
Movement: the fingertips brush down off the chin twice, then the fist holds in front of the shoulder.
Palm orientation: the palm faces toward the body.
Use it in a sentence
DAD DIABETES.
Dad has diabetes.
Lifeprint signs diabetes with SWEET alone (the flat hand brushing down the chin twice). AISA's video adds the closed fist with the thumb up.
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Description checked against AISA's own video (the reference); Lifeprint (ASL University), lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/d/diabetes.htm.
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