Beginning ASL Level 1

In this Beginning ASL Immersion course, you’ll tap into a language your body already knows. You’ll discover your natural ability for visual communication—learning to listen with your eyes and express with your whole being.

Category: Group Course

Pace Level: B - Casual (More about Pace Levels)

Location: All Sessions are delivered live by an ASL Pros Instructor on a remote platform (Zoom).

Price: $ 249 Or Free with any level of Membership (More about Memberships)​

7-week Program includes:

• Orientation & Introduction to ASL Session

• A Flexible Schedule of Classroom Instruction Sessions

• Open Practice Sessions

Course Description:

Through immersive, intuitive practice, you will discover & develop the visual language processor in your brain, and begin to see language in 3-D. You’ll experience communication without using spoken language, and engage with ASL in a way a human’s brain is meant to process it: visually, physically, and expressively.

Content:

In this course, students will be immersed in basic conversational communication in American Sign Language, including: 

• Introductions and sharing basic Information about yourself

• Basic ASL grammar structure

• Simple affirmative sentences & negative sentences, answering yes/no questions, and related facial expressions & body language.

• The manual alphabet, numbers 0-12, fingerspelling techniques

• Navigating encounters in ASL and communicating about learning ASL

• Referring to objects and their locations

• Asking for clarification & more information, and showing you understand

• Verbs that change movement to show location or to indicate subject and object

• Interruptions and apologies - visual culture

Non-Membership Holders pay $249 for this 7-week course. Or Register for Free with Diamond, Platinum, or Gold Membership Subscription Packages.