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"WH"-question placement:

It is common for ASL teachers to tell their students to (always) put "WH" concepts (such as who, what, when, where, why, etc.) at the end of a signed question.  While in general it is good to put "WH" question signs at the end of a sentence -- it is not an "absolute" rule applied to all situations. 

I mention this to the group since I know many of you are taking sign from teachers who insist that the "WH"-question must come last. Actually that is not true IRL (in real life).

1. In very short sentences it isn't overly important to put the "WH"-question last. For example: "WHO IX?"-("Who is that person?").

2. Some sentences involve a "WH"-question clause wherein the WH-question is in the clause but not necessarily at the end of the sentence. For example:  In a widespread ASL curriculum, we see a video demonstration of the following question:
THREE FLAGS WHICH OLD-EST? 1st-of-3 ENGLAND (depict the stripes), 2nd-of-3 FRANCE (depict the stripes), 3rd-of-3 AMERICA (depict the stars and stripes) of-these-3 WHICH OLD-EST? (Source: Signing Naturally, Unit 19). 

The point here is the Deaf signer in this widespread curriculum is signing: "…WHICH OLDEST?"  (Not "OLDEST WHICH?") 

3. Often the "WH"-concept is subsumed into another sign. For example: "IX what-NAME?" ("What is that person's name?")

Let me give you a sample of a trade-off. Consider the sentence: "Who takes out the garbage in your family?"
If you want to put the "WHO" sign at the end you end up trying something like this:

YOUR HOUSE, GARBAGE THROW-out WHO? (Awkward!)

This is a little better:
YOUR HOUSE, PERSON THROW-out GARBAGE, WHO? (Still awkward but more clear. We have to expend energy adding the sign "PERSON.")

Or you can use this type of sentence:
YOUR HOUSE, GARBAGE, WHO THROW-out? (This fairly decent version but it takes a micro bit of extra effort to topicalize "GARBAGE." )

Then if we do this, we are making the ASL 1 and ASL 2 teachers happy again but wasting time and energy:
YOUR HOUSE, GARBAGE, WHO THROW-out WHO?

Or you just accept the fact that your ASL 1 and/or ASL 2 teacher were parroting over-generalized advice about (always) putting the "WH"-question at the end of the sentence and realize that it is okay to sign:
YOUR HOUSE, WHO THROW-out GARBAGE? (Winner!!!)

Oh sure, you should sign however your local teacher wants you to sign (at least until you get the grade you want in the class). Then go out in the world and see how we sign in real life.
 

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Notes:  ASL (similar to typical spoken language) has a lot of syntactic variation -- which is a fancy way of saying that there are a lot of right ways to sign the same thing in ASL.

 

Also see: WH-rightward movement unnecessary in very short questions
 

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