Sign language resources and extracurricular ASL (American Sign Language) materials for language+culture enthusiasts, ASL students and learners, instructors and teachers, interpreters, homeschoolers, parents and professionals for practice or self-study.
Equivalent to English: icicle
December 16, 1817: Eliza Young was born. She was the wife of William Willard, and together they founded the Indiana School for the Deaf.
Season's Holidays
Merry Christmas
ASL text translated as: "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Gifts to you: love, friendship, support, unity."
Happy Hanukkah
For 2016, Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on 24 December (sunset) to 1 January (nightfall).
Upcoming event: new year.
How do you sign some common ASL words? thank you, I love you, please, hello, baby. Browse thousands of signed words in the ASL dictionary.
Learning ASL as a second language (L2) is fun and popular. Bilingualism is not the only benefit, but also bimodalism is another linguistic advantage for the cognitive and sensorial development. Plus many other benefits.
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Link to and/or text performativity.
"I cannot understand how a language like sign language - the richest in expressions, the most energetic, the most advantageous in its universal intelligibility is still so neglected and that only the deaf speak it. This is, I confess, one of those irrationalities of the human mind that I cannot explain."
-- Pierre Desloges, 1779
Signing ASL as a first language (L1) is commonly found in Deaf families and codas as well as some deaf children in ASL-speaking bilingual schools. Studies from neuroscience to linguistics show that language acquisition, developmental milestones, and linguistic activities in the brain are similiar in signed language as found in spoken language.
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Raising a bilingual-bimodal child: Don't insist on English.