This professional elective course is designed for hearing students wishing to acquire some of the basic vocabulary and grammatical structures of American Sign Language (ASL)
This professional elective course is designed for hearing students wishing to acquire some of the basic vocabulary and grammatical structures of American Sign Language (ASL).
Through active participation, students learn to communicate in ASL, developing their ability to understand and use ASL fingerspelling, simple affirmative and interrogative statements.
Students also learn to converse in ASL. By the end of this course, students should know 500 signs. Students with restricted dexterity may find the production of signs challenging.
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Students learn to handle basic every day communication.
This introductory course in American Sign Language (ASL) teaches students to manage everyday communication in ASL and integrate deaf culture and deaf community content.
Learn new vocabulary with an emphasis placed on increasing Sign Language fluency in both the receptive and expressive modes of communication.
In our ASL classes, workshops ,and 1 on 1 sessions we use the Signing Naturally curriculum that was originally developed at a California College.Â
American Sign Language is designed to introduce a visual-gestural language used by the Deaf Community in Canada and the United States.
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