To enroll, please email: smkalbhenn@gmail.com. Accepted method's of payment include PayPal or Zelle. My typical business hours are Monday-Thursday 11:00am-5:00pm EST, with the exception of holidays and personal days off. 

Price for class is in USD. If paying internationally, here is a dollar converter to know how much you will pay in your currency: https://www.oanda.com/currency-converter/en/?from=EUR&to=USD&amount=1i

ASL for beginners is an exciting and interactive class for students who want to learn Sign Language!

During this course students will learn the following signs:

- Storytelling 

- Codeswitching

- Describing School Subjects 

- Lexicon

- Advanced Classifiers Skills

- Conversations with groups of 3-4 people 

- Sign Play

- Decipher between idiomatic and figurative language.

- Adapting between formal and casual registers  

- Facial Adverbials 

- Rhetorical Comments

- Topicalization

- Appropriate Attention-Getting

- Summarizations

- Explanations 

- Personal Titles

- Fingerspelling practice

- Animal fur patterns

- Birthday Party Topics

- We will also be working on translating, interpreting, conversation skills, Deaf culture, and proper hand placements.

We will learn through activities, demonstration, and lots of practice! This will help the children learn to recognize signs as well as use ASL! This is a 10 Class. Once you complete this course, if you wish to continue you may join Part 7! :)

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. 

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. 

If your student already knows 150 signs or more, or has taken my previous Part 1-Part 2 courses, then this is the class for them! If not, then Part 1 or Part 2 of my Learn to Sign in 10 Classes series will be your first step. I am looking forward to learning, laughing, and signing with your children soon!!

This course will be fun, engaging, and educational. I am looking forward to teaching 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.