Advanced American Sign Language I

Catalog description

Development of expressive and receptive skills in the advanced use of American Sign Language, including fingerspelling and numbers. Receptive skills focus on ASL-English interpretation, whole word phase recognition and fingerspelling/number comprehension in text. Expressive skills focus on the development of incorporating advanced skills in storytelling, speech clarity and fluency. Students will learn how to sign cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, time, money, dates, addresses, and telephone numbers. Fingerspelling will be developed with an emphasis on real world situations. Students will develop skill sets related to ASL-English interpreting skills.