For families. 4 hours. $40/family.

For educators. 4 hours. $25/person.

For early and young child educators. 4 hours. $25/person.

For families. 2 hours. $25/for up to 2 people

For police officers. 3 hours. $25/person.

DATE: TBA TIME: TBA LOCATION: TBA

For exceptional families. 2 hours. $25/for up to two people .

DATE: TBA, 2010. TIME: TBA LOCATION: TBA

Meets 90 minutes a week for a 10-week session.  $160

DATE: Coming Soon TIME: 6:00 pm - 7: 30 pm LOCATION: Across the street from Union University in Germantown, TN

For families living with hearing loss. The individual with hearing loss and one other family member/friend/co-worker is strongly encouraged to enroll. $160/couple Supplies included.

Read the Registration Policy above.

For medical personnel. Each class is 90 minutes long. Meets twice a week for an 8-week session. $270/person. Supplies included.

LOCATION: Currently seeking a Baptist Medical facility to host. Host facility will receive free of charge 30% of classroom seating reserved for their staff. Contact me at instructor@ASLasl.com ASAP if you are a Baptist Medical Healthcare facility who would like to host this session. (Previously hosted by Baptist Rehab-Germantown.)

IACET approved for 2.4 CEUs

Read the Registration Policy above.

REACH program at the Germantown Parks and Recreation Department ASLasl DOES NOT handle registration for this program. I simply show up and teach (smile). Zero amounts are not allowed, thus the reason for the 1 cent charge below. However, if you are feeling generous, I will take 1 cent donations (smile).

DATE: Meets T/Th .

TIME: Meets after school.

LOCATION: Germantown Area Elementary Schools in Germantown, TN.

Eligibility: ANY child as long as they pay the $65 fee and can provide their own transportation to the school.

To Register: Call Jared Azzone at (901) 757-7389

or email at jazzone@germantown-tn.gov

A sign language class geared toward seasoned citizens who are interested in learning America's 3rd most commonly used language for personal enrichment, relief from arthritic pain, active cognition, hearing loss, or benevolence purposes.

Location: Bartlett Senior Center, 5727 Woodlawn, Bartlett, TN

Time: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Date: July 7 - Sept 8, 2011 (Thursdays)

Cost & Registration: contact Holly Eggenberger at (901) 385-6439 or heggenberger@cityofbartlett.org

Meets 8 times per session. $70/person + $25 registration fee Supplies included.

DATE:  (Tentative dates meeting for 8 Tuesdays from Aug 23 - Oct 11)

TIME: 5:40 - 7:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Germantown, TN

A ground zero, beginning level, you-mean-you-use-your-hands-for-ASL level class. Very comfortable, no intimidation - and NO long lists to memorize!

$7/person for a 60- 90 minute workshop.

A series of 11 workshops offered on the following topics: 

Visual Acuity, Manual Dexterity and and Introduction to ASL: for those who are curious about what is involved in learning sign language as well as those who have taken a class/lesson before but were discouraged with the amount of knowledge they were able to put into practice afterward.   Covers types of visual acuity and how they relate to learning sign language as well as manual warm-up exercises to help you improve your fine motor skills needed for signing.  At the end of this workshop you will have the resources you need to help build your visual acuity at home, to stretch the hand muscles for better manuevering, and you will receive an introduction to America's third most commonly used language. 

Essential ASL: for those who are curious about what is involved in learning sign language; those who are living with hearing loss at any level; and those who come into contact with the deaf community at work, church, or social situations.   You will be able to sign brief sentences at the end of this presentation.  Covers fundamentals to help you sign should you come into contact with someone who uses ASL to communicate.   By the end of this workshop you will be able to sign simple conversational sentences such as:  What is your name?  Where do you live?  Where do you work?  How many children do you have?  etc... 

Benefits of Early ASL: for parents, caregivers, and early child educators.Expecting or have you had a recent addition to the family?  Curious about a Sign with Your Baby class?  Come learn the reasons why using American Sign Language with your pre-verbal child is beneficial, fun, and rewarding.  Covers how signing affects cognition, behavior, communication, and parental bonding.  

Manual Alphabet and Fingerspelling: for those who are learning beginning sign language; those who help students with spelling difficulties; those who live with or work with those who have any level of hearing loss.  Learn how to sign the alphabet in American Sign Language and how it can quickly increase your signing vocabulary.  Learn how to teach yourself and practice the manual alphabet. Learn when fingerspelling is used and how to sign the calendar months, states, and abbreviations.  Additionally, learn how to improve your expressive and receptive fingerspelling skills.
Numbering in ASL: for those who are learning beginning sign language; those who help students with math difficulties;  those who live with or work with those who have any level of hearing  loss. Learn how to sign numbers in American Sign Language including, ordinal numbers, money, age, time, fractions, measurements and related sign vocabulary.  By the end of this workshop you will know how to sign simple math problems, use number incorporation, and increase your signing vocabulary. 

ASL Phonology: for a critical workshop for anyone wanting to learn ASL.  Just as learning the alphabet is an initial step to reading English, learning the 5 parts of a sign are initial steps to ASL.When is a moving considered a sign in sign language?  What makes up a sign?  Learn the 5 parts to every sign.  By the end of this workshop, you will have a method ASL phonology to teach yourself ASL signing vocabulary.
Referents and Signing Space: for those who know that the essessence of an introductory conversation with the deaf entails discussing common friendships and relationships that you have with each other.  Those who want to be able to tell someone in sign that you work with their sister, you've met their brother, you live 3 doors down, etc...Learn how to sign first-person, demonstrative, objective, and reflexive pronouns in ASL as well as how to use your signing space to include body language, role shifting, and referents.  By the end of this workshop you will be able to refer to others when speaking about them.

Deaf Culture: for those curious about the deaf community; those who see differences between the hearing and the deaf; those who want or need to understand the deaf community better.  This workshop covers the answers to many questions about deafness that you may have been afraid to ask.  How do the deaf learn to sign?  Can the deaf appreciate puns and jokes?   Do the deaf have accents?  How do the deaf yell?  Can any deaf speak?  How can I interrupt someone who is signing?  Are the deaf issued a driver's license? Etc....

Introduction to Classifiers: for those who want to learn more than just sign vocabulary; those who are curious about how the deaf learn sign, and those who want to understand what makes ASL so different than other foreign languages.  In ASL, the hands are not merely hands, but are tools to assist us in expressing our ideas and concepts.  What do you do if you don't know the sign for something?  How can you best use your hands to describe an object, an action, or your idea?  Learn about 3 types of classifiers and how this knowledge will assist you in increasing your sign language expression skills.  By the end of this workshop you will have the knowledge to sign concepts such as a wave crashing into the beach, changing out a lightbulb, mailing a letter, etc...

ASL Sentences: for those who have looked at a sign language dictionary but simply do not know how to "speak" American Sign Language and those who would like to learn more about conversational ASL.  This workshop covers how to convey questions, declarative and conditional sentences, topicalization, negation, and affirmation of concepts. 
ASL Syntax: for  those who have looked at a sign language dictionary but simply do not know how to "speak" American Sign Language; those who do not put their signs together properly; and those who don't know what makes American Sign Language different than simply signing while speaking English .When signing, which sign comes first?  Just as in English, ASL requires that you convey your message in a certain order.  We cannot throw words out in random order nor can we sign in random order.  This workshop covers types of syntax and when to sign what.

For teens & adults. Part 1 meets 4 times per session.  Part 2 meets 4 times per session.

Hybrid Format: One online class and one in-class meeting per week. 
TIME: one eveing a week

LOCATION: Germantown, TN

Part 1 Information:

Cost:  $140/person +$25 late registration fee.   Supplies included.  If you are a former ASLasl student, use this class to refresh your skills.  Former students email instructor@ASLasl.com to reserve your seat and receive a 50% discount!

This class uses the same curriculum as California State University (no CEUs available however).  You will receive an introduction to ASL and Deaf Culture, fingerspelling, pluralizing, indexing, possession, inflections, negation, suffixes, classifiers, noun-verb pairs, and using facial expressions as well  as learn signing vocabulary to introduce yourself, tell about your family/work/where live and how you feel.

Part 2 Information:

Cost:  $105/person +$25 registration fee. Supplies included.

*****NOTE****   ASL 101-part 1 is NOT necessarily a pre-requisite.  You may have previous signing experience.  Read below and determine for yourself.   However, if you are a former ASL 101 student of mine, then this is the next class for you.*****

If you can at least introduce yourself and your family in sign, then this might be the starting level for you.  Look at the following to see what you already know and base your registration decision on that (or just email me at instructor@ASLasl.com): 

This session covers food, animal, color signs, loan/lexicalized signs, some classifiers, as well as topicalization, advanced numbering topics, bi-bi approach to learning, and a brief history of Gallaudet.

For parents and their babies/tots (with or without special needs.)     $65/baby

AGE:  For parents and their children.  Email instructor@ASLasl.com with your questions any your child's needs.

 If not paying via PayPal, you MUST email instructor@ASLasl.com to reserve your seat.

 Why wait to communicate?  Learn how to teach your tot to express themselves without the need for crying, whining, and outbursts.