Learning American Sign Language (ASL) is not only a way to break communication barriers, it is viewed as a respectful and worthwhile skill to have. Sign language is not universal, and different ...

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Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

We all communicate through words, either by speaking or writing. Very rarely, we use nods, or some simple hand signs to communicate. Unfortunately, there are deaf people in the world who cannot hear ...

Maybe. It depends on the credit hours of the classes you took (e.g., 3-credit, 4-credit, or 5-credit) and which curriculum you used. Taking the online placement test will validate your level of ...

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Ability to invest time in ASL skill development: To become an ASL-English interpreter, one must develop competency in both English and ASL. The more adept students become in both languages’ grammar, ...

This sub-section includes documents that may assist you in developing and refining your staff/employee sign language philosophy and policy document(s): If you are considering the development or ...