Curated OER
A Sense for Technology
Students discuss American Sign Language. They work in pairs to review the fingerspelling alphabet and to spell a few common words. In addition. they
work with a partner to practice signs for 10 different words related to a selected...
Curated OER
Getting the Message: What Did You Say?
Students listen to and compare the first sentence of the Gettysburg Address spoken in different languages. They also compare frequency readings for each and discuss how the brain interprets spoken words.
Curated OER
Fun With Imogene: Let's Use Our Imagination!
Students research animal characteristics and use their imaginations to tell about what it would be like to wake up one morning and find that they have some animal characteristic. They read Imogene's Antlers by David Small.
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Health: American Sign Language
Through a series of Q and A's, gain insight into American Sign Language (ASL) What is it? How did it originate? How does it compare to the spoken word? Is sign language the same around the world? Early introduction of ASL to hearing...
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Smart Device Translates Sign Language to English
Article reports on the development of a technology that translates American Sign Language, the language used by many deaf people to communicate. Includes video.
Lesson Tutor
Lessontutor.com: American Sign Language (Asl) vs. Signed English (Se)
A text based article discussing the differences and similarities between American Sign Language (ASL) and Signed English (SE), as well as when, and how, each is used.
Other
Needs Outreach: American Sign Language for Mathematics: Secondary
This collection of videos demonstates ASL vocabulary for a wide variety of secondary mathematics terms. Includes vocabulary PDFs in both English and Spanish. Requires Quicktime and Adobe Reader.
Other
Deafblind.com: American Sign Language Alphabet
View animations of each of the ASL alphabet letters, followed by a text based description of how each letter is formed.
Other
Signwriting: Sign Writing Children's Stories
A wonderful collection of over twenty famous children's stories, each written in Sign Writing, a way to transcribing the features of American Sign Language with accompanying text below! Stories and workbooks can be downloaded or read...
Other
Government of Canada: Senate of Canada Educational Videos
The Senate of Canada offers educational videos in video formats for persons who are deaf or are hard of hearing -- American Sign Language (ASL) and Quebec Sign Language (LSQ)'. Nine video clips provide an overview of the Senate, its role...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Gallery Talks
This national museum offers several videos of gallery talks given in American Sign Language.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tickle Me Nim. Do Primates Speak Language?
Read the information about Nim, a male chimpanzee who lived in a human environment, was taught American sign language. Then complete the 5-question quiz concerning Do Primates Speak Language?
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Week of 8 25 14: At 'Signs' Restaurant, Orders Fall on Deaf Ears
Read about a restaurant in Toronto that is staffed entirely by deaf workers. Also learn some basic ASL communication that is used in restaurants. Includes video.
EL Education
El Education: Asl Ab Cs
5th and 6th graders from the Santa Fe School for the arts created this Alphabet Book as a way to introduce younger audiences to American Sign Language (ASL). Students created this book as a demonstration of their learning. In this book...
Other
Needs Outreach: United States History Vocabulary (In Asl)
This collection of American Sign Language vocabulary refers to American history. Includes a printable PDF vocabulary list. Requires Adobe Reader and Quicktime.
Other
Download Braille and Asl Specialty Fonts
Helpful page serves as a resource of free fonts for both Braille and American Sign Language.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Learn to Sign Letters of the Alphabet and Numbers
Find a game that teaches the American Sign Language signs for letters and numbers.
PBS
Through Deaf Eyes: The First Permanent School
Learn the history of American Sign Language and Thomas Gallaudet, for whom Gallaudet University was named.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Sound and Fury: Deaf and Diverse
Identify beliefs, values and attitudes of deaf culture. Explore the causes and special communication needs of deafness, research the role that American Sign Language plays in forging a sense of community and create your own "sign name".
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor: Deaf Interactivate: Tools (With Text and Asl)
This collection of computational science resources discusses a variety of topics, from fractions to telling time to conducting scientific experiments. Videos provide narration in ASL. Requires Quicktime.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Language Location in the Brain Asl
Practice questions over language location in the brain in regards to ASL.
Lesson Tutor
Lesson Tutor: Asl Picture Dictionary
English vocabulary words are listed with a link to a picture illustrating how to sign them in ASL and SE(Signed English), including a brief written description.
EL Education
El Education: Autumn Helena Washington Hawn
This Character File (CF) was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a learning expedition on Deaf Culture. Students did fieldwork at four schools for the Deaf, including overnight exchange visits; all...
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Searchable database of the NIDCD, one of the Institutes of the National Institutes of Health (Federal Government). Covers a wide range of hearing related topics/research.