To enroll, please email: smkalbhenn@gmail.com. Accepted method's of payment include PayPal or Zelle. Typically my business hours are Monday-Thursday. I am located in Eastern Standard Time.

ASL for Advanced Part 8 FLEX is an exciting and interactive class for students who want to continue learning American Sign Language! 

This class will be completely silent and is a full immersion class! We will use ASL as our only form of communication; the students will be fully emerged into the language which will greatly help increase their fluency in the language. The course will be very engaging by using PowerPoint slides, pictures, props, and animations to demonstrate and teach new vocabulary to the students. Although the course will be silent, it will be very easy for the students to follow along through the teaching style and communication tools used in class. 

Weekly Class Schedule:

Week 1: Semantic Classifiers

Week 2: Locative Classifiers

Week 3: Element Classifiers

Week 4: Instrument Classifiers

Week 5: Driving Rules

Week 6: Olympic Sports and Deaflympics

Week 7: Age Descriptions

Week 8: Family and Friend Relationships

Week 9: Morning Routine and Descriptive Signing

Week 10: Fluency Test and Review

How the Course Works: 

You have two options! When enrolling, please choose which option you prefer. You may email me which option you choose when sending your payment.

Option 1: 

Every Sunday for the 10 week course, I will email weekly video. The students can watch the recording at their convenience throughout the week.

Every Friday I will email the class discussion questions to encourage student involvement and practice. These will include thought provoking questions and challenges to help increase the student's knowledge and ASL skills.

I will also be available throughout the week to answer questions and support the students through their progress of learning ASL.  

Option 2:

When you enroll you can receive all 10 weeks of videos and discussion questions in one bulk email. The student can then move as quickly or as slowly through the content as they need. If you chose this option, I will be available weekly for 6 months to answer questions. 

Additional Info

This is a Flex Class, each lesson will be posted on Sunday or Monday every week for you to watch and learn at your own pace and at your convenience. For participation, every student will be asked to get involved in the classroom discussions each week. They will also be asked to  post short videos of their favorite signs and sentences that they learned throughout the course. I will be available to questions and discussion each week through the Classroom tab or private messages throughout the course as well to help your student receive the best learning environment as possible. I am very excited to teach, inspire, and encourage your student to learn this beautiful language!

Teacher Expertise

Sara took courses at Gallaudet University, she has her double certificate in ASL from International Open Academy, and she is heavily involved in the Deaf community in her area. Sara love's working with children, teaching ASL, and reading! She is excited to expand her knowledge to your children through this exciting course!

Payment

Price of class is in USD, if you live outside of the United States you will need to send appropriate price of class that covers the USD price. Here is a currency converter to determine how much the price will be in your currency: https://www.oanda.com/currency-converter/en/?from=EUR&to=USD&amount=1

Currently, accepted methods include PayPal, Zelle, Cash, or Check. If none of these payment options work for you, please message me and we will see what else we can do. 

During this course, the students will learn several hundred new vocabulary signs, increase their fluency with conversational skills, advance their ASL grammar, emerge themselves in Deaf culture and signing, and expand their fluency. 

This course will be tons of fun!!!

Placement

If your student already knows 2,000 signs (or more) and is familiar ASL grammar, classifiers, the 5 parameters of ASL, and/or has taken my previous courses Part 1 through Part 7, then this is the class for them! If not, then Part 1 will be a good starting point, this course is called: ASL for Beginners - Learn to Sign in 10 Classes. Or feel free to message me and we will find a proper placement for your student.

I am looking forward to learning, laughing, and signing with your students soon!!

There are many benefits to learning Sign Language! One is to help bridge the communication gap. Often times, individuals with neurodivergent differences struggle with communication. In some instances are non-verbal. This experience for a child can bring much frustration or behavioral difficulties due to the lack of communication skills. Teaching American Sign Language (ASL) can help bridge the gap of communication skills and improve the overall happiness that families experience because they are able to communicate more effectively. 

Students without such severe neurodivergence difference can also benefit greatly! Having a different form of communication, other than speaking, for anxiety is extremely beneficial. Students with anxiety often struggle with communicating their feelings when they are in an uncomfortable situation. Having a different way to communicate their feelings to loved ones is highly beneficial. 

ASL is an incredible language for students with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia as well. The language is a visual and gestural language which makes learning a second language much easier than spoken languages for students with these difficulties.