American Sign Language
The Program
1 Elementary American Sign Language
Study of American Sign Language (ASL) including appreciation of the deaf culture. Introduction to current and historical aspects of the deaf culture, survival skills of the hearing-impaired including special schools, equipment, and lipreading, parenting techniques, and challenges of living in a hearing world. Skills focus on the basic principles of phrasing, vocabulary, sentence patterns, manual counting and spelling, semantics, and the development of expressive and receptive abilities. Fourteen hours of supplemental instruction in a Success Center that supports this course is required. This course corresponds to the first year of high school ASL.
2 Elementary American Sign Language
Continued systematic study of the structure, vocabulary, and conversational strategies of American Sign Language (ASL). Skills focus on the basic principles of phrasing, sentence patterns, manual counting and spelling, semantics, and the development of expressive and receptive abilities. Continued study of the American Deaf Culture history, community and language. Fourteen hours of supplemental instruction in a Success Center that supports this course is required.
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