Study of American Sign Language (ASL), including an introduction to current and historical aspects of deaf culture. Skills focus on the basic principles of phrasing, vocabulary, sentence patterns, manual counting and spelling, semantics, and the development of expressive and receptive abilities. This course may also require the completion of supplemental assignments.
Further develops basic vocabulary and grammar of American Sign Language. Emphasis is placed on comprehension skills. Incorporates vital aspects of the Deaf culture and community.
Overview of topics includes: describing people and things, making requests and asking for advice, describing places, giving opinions about others, discussing plans and goals, and storytelling and fables.
Functional/notional discourse behaviours are developed, including: asking and answering questions, and expanding conversational and narrative skills.
Units Topics
Unit 7 Describing People and Things
Unit 8 Making Requests and Asking for Advice
Unit 9 Describing Places
Unit 10 Giving Opinions About Others
Unit 11 Discussing Plans and Goals
Unit 12 Storytelling and Fables
Unit Outcomes
Unit 7 Describing People
Ability to ask for and give names, produce certain numbers, fingerspelling and sign handshapes.
Introducing self and greeting others
Describing items
Sequence descriptions
Understand certain verb uses and use of spatial grammar.
Unit 8 Making Requests and Asking for Advice
Identify self, learn to negate and correct information, ask yes/no questions, identify spatial locations, and tell present condition.
Make decline, explain requests and advice. Time signs related to months and numbers of occurrences. Modify agreement verbs
Understand the use of name signs.
Unit 9 Describing Places
Ask/tell where you live, use real-world orientation
Give commands, develop non-manual grammars(facial expressions)
Describe the residence, and use contrastive structure.
Use numbers for the clock time
Make suggestions
Understand the role of information sharing in Deaf Culture
Unit 10 Giving Opinions About Others
Develop and use temporal aspect with verbs
Use predictive adjectives and wh-word questions correctly.
Use numbers for dollar and cent amounts.
Use role shift to support an opinion.
Continued use of contrastive structure.
Politely interrupt conversations.
Unit 11 Discussing Plans and Goals
Discuss daily routines school, and activities.
Expand on the use of different numbers and fingerspelling uses.
Ask hypothetical questions.
Invite, accept, and decline invitations.
Use horizontal listing.
Understand how to behave in a public setting when communication issues arise between Deaf and hearing people
Understand what De'VIA represents.
Unit 12 Storytelling and Fables
Understand and retell a story, one-person and two-person role shifts.
Use transition
Use depiction (classifiers)
establish references and engage the audience.