American Sign Language for Kids
About American Sign Language for Kids
This course provides hearing students with an introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf Culture. It is designed for students who have little or no knowledge of ASL. Students will learn basic sign language, useful sign vocabulary and expressions, specific grammatical features of ASL, communicative facial expressions and body language, and aspects of Deaf culture.
Through a variety of communicative activities, students will develop receptive and expressive skills to enable them to exchange basic greetings, share personal information, identify others, and give simple directions. They will also learn conversational and cultural behaviors that would enable them to converse in ASL at a beginner’s level with users of ASL who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Class Goals
- Demonstrate an increased level of expressive and receptive skills in ASL lexicon, parameters, fingerspelling, numbering systems, and ASL classifiers
- Demonstrate proper usage of signing space and spatial relationships
- Compose proper ASL structures with minimal influence of English syntax
- Evaluate controversial elements of Deaf culture
Age Range
Kids
Skill Level
Beginner
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When
The class will meet for four weekly 45-min live online sessions on Tuesdays at 6:30 pm ET | 3:30 pm PT | 23:30 UTC on the schedule below. The first session is on January 17.
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How It Works
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Charlie McNulty
Hello! I am a 33-year-old special education teacher at a transfer charter high school in Brooklyn, NYC. Originally from Canada, I have lived and taught in Seoul, Toronto, and New York City. I have experience teaching in the Department of Education schools, as well as private schools over the years.
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