Elementary American Sign Language I

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to the vocabulary, finger spelling, grammatical processes, phonology, syntax and semantics of American Sign Language. Designed to prepare a student with little or no prior experience or knowledge of ASL with basic conversational skills and to discover the various aspects of deafness, the course emphasizes the application of principles of sign language; the psychosocial aspects of deafness; recognition of the deaf person as bilingual; and the grammatical processes that modulate the meaning of sign in discourse. Audiological, educational, social, cultural, and historical aspects of deafness will also be presented.