The purpose of this initiative is to establish formal standards and benchmarks for ASL learning in grades K through 12. The development of these standards are central to helping deaf and hard of...
This website shows some common signs in ASL for math.
Families' Role in Early Intervention
A resource developed by the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University was created to assist families with early literacy intervention.
The Essential Educator on Early Visual Language
Research, notes the education blog site, "The Essential Educator," has indicated that the language areas of the brain have no preference for language input and that the most accessible pathway for...
This website lets you video record yourself reading a high quality children’s book for your children. The kids can watch the story as often as they like, whenever they like. Even on an iPad or an...
Provides an early intervention service targeting infants and toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing, ages 0-5 and their parents. This site offers a web-based curriculum in English and ASL. You...
The Shared Reading Project (SRP) is designed to teach parents, caregivers, and educators how to read with children who are deaf or hard of hearing using American Sign Language, and to use...
1001 Books in ASL (American Sign Language)
This free website has a number of popular children’s books, such as Where the Wild Things Are, in a range of translations to meet your student’s language needs. There is an accompanying YouTube...
ASL Tales (American Sign Language)
This website allows you to purchase stories translated into ASL. This site has been designed specifically to help teach American Sign Language to children.
15 principles for reading to deaf children
This link will bring you to a document talking about 15 principles for reading to Deaf children created by the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center.
Dr. Kristin A. DiPerri has designed an English-language curriculum specifically for deaf and hard of hearing students.
Signed stories (ASL) available for purchase.
ASL Songs and Rhymes DVD
-Professionally Developed
-20 popular children songs translated into ASL
-3 ASL Phonology Poems
-All songs have captioning
-No voice -over...
eMotion Stories - Interactive Bilingual E-Books
This resource includes stories that have been adapted to help hearing parents spend time with their deaf / hard of hearing kids through the use of a fun and educational learning application. The...
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Related Apps
A list of apps for children who are deaf and hard of hearing comprised by Hands and Voices.
This website provides a list of the top 9 writing apps for the iPad to promote children’s literacy skills.
“Sharing Results” is a series of occasional papers that describe the results of work undertaken by the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center in its three priority areas of literacy, family...
A young boy signs the story "Courdroy".
Video: Hearing Mother Using ASL/English with 2 Deaf Children Who have CIs
A parent of two Deaf children with cochlear implants shares her view about the value of the bilingual approach, including participating in the Shared Reading Project.
This story is re-told by 3-year-old preschoolers in ASL.
This video shows a parent reading to their Deaf toddler.
Video Review: Teach Me English In ASL
This review of the 7-part video speaks to how to teach English to children through ASL.
Video: Deaf Folklore "Tree" Story
In this video, a 3-year-old girl signs the Deaf Folklore “Tree” Story.
Browse by: