Advanced ASL
Fingerspelling
Formation/Expressive
Skills
Tips and Tricks!
Expressive/Formation and
Receptive Patterns
Adapted from: ABC-123:
Fingerspelling and Numbers in
ASL- Mendoza
Please have a Blue
Master ASL! book at your
seat! 
Double letters:
• The rules for double letters vary depending on
the position in the word.
• Typically, double letters repeat at the
beginning (Aaron) and in the middle of the
word (Miller) and move laterally at the end of
the word (Mitchell).
Double Letters in Fingerspelling
• P. 5 Zinza (Blue Master ASL!)- Double letters
movements:
• Beginning or middle: A,D,E,F,M, N,O,P,S, and T- do
not move your hand, but make a quick repetition
of the letter e.g. Brittany
• Beginning or Middle: B,C,G,K,L,P,R,U, and Xdouble movement, as if letters are on “top” of
each other e.g. Molly
• Ending: move your hand slightly to the right. This
is the only time you will move your hand!
• Research is still ongoing…