Beginning American Sign Language (ASL)  In this class the student will learn the basics of ASL - its history and development, basic grammatical structure, basic signs for communication, and the manual alphabet.

This class will allow the student to further develop their ASL skills by learning: sign vocabulary, additional ASL sentence structure, fingerspelled loan signs / lexical borrowing, and name signs.

Prerequisite:  Students must have proof of completion of my Advanced Beginning ASL course OR successfully pass a screening of skills done face-to-face with the instructor.

Intermediate American Sign Language (ASL)

Student will learn the basics of ASL including the manual alphabet, simple sentence structure, the importance of facial expression, the building blocks of ASL (parameters), the history of ASL.

Beginning American Sign Language (ASL)

Student will continue to improve fluency and receptive skills during conversations at a normal rate.  Conversations will include a variety of topics decided upon by the student and teacher. 

Prerequisite: student must have proof of completion of my Advanced Intermediate ASL course OR successfully pass a screening of skills done face-to-face with the instructor.

Advanced American Sign Language (ASL)

The student in this course will continue building their sign vocabulary, learn more ASL features including: Wh-questions, Yes/No questions, and Rh-questions - how to produce them and how to know the differences, listing, use of space, indexing, etc.

Prerequisites: student must have proof of completion of my Beginning ASL course OR successfully pass a screening of skills done face-to-face with the instructor.

Advanced Beginning American Sign Language (ASL)

The student in this course will continue building their sign vocabulary, learn ASL features including: number incorporation, register, classifiers, non-manual markers, etc.

Prerequisites: student must have proof of completion of my Intermediate ASL course OR successfully pass a screening of skills done face-to-face with the instructor.

Advanced Intermediate American Sign Language (ASL)

The student in this course will continue building their sign vocabulary while communicating with the instructor on a variety of topics.  Student will increase signing fluency and ability to read another person's signs (receptive skills).

Prerequisites: student must have proof of completion of my Advanced ASL course OR successfully pass a screening of skills done face-to-face with the instructor.

Advanced American Sign Language II (ASL)

This allowed me to interpret in Georgia public schools.

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I taught beginning, intermediate and advanced American Sign Language as well as various interpreting courses.  A majority of the certified Sign Language interpreters in the Atlanta area are my former students.