Learning ASL
Resources for learning American Sign LanguageLearning ASL with your Child
The American Society for Deaf Children has programs that will help you learn American Sign Language. Giving your child access to a visual language like ASL will help provide a strong foudation for learning and communication that will last a lifetime.
Learning ASL in Person
Check out our ASL Weekends – a two-day workshop that will help you take your ASL skills to the next level. All skills levels welcome!
Learning ASL Online
Want to practice signing from home? Become an ASDC member and get five free sessions of SignOn with ASDC. You’ll sign in real time with a Deaf adult. You can choose your topics of conversation, schedule sessions as a time that is most convenient for you, and go back and watch your recorded sessions for more practice! SignOn also has a program for kids called “Friends Like Me” where your child can chat weekly with a group of kids their age.
In addition ASDC regularly offers online classes and webinars.
Learning ASL through Reading
Find hundreds of popular children’s story books in our ASL Stories Directory. Link out to free videos of ASL interpretations of the stories. You can even watch several different interpretations of the same story! Look up books alphabetically by title or by your child’s age.
Recent Blog Posts: ASL Resources
ASL Video of the Week 9/22/22: Meanings of GIVE in ASL
There are several different meanings of the word GIVE and they are all signed in different ways! Learn about those differences and how you can use them appropriately! Sentences are related to reading opportunities, not ASL translations. ASL Presenters: Ashley Russ,...
Enter ASDC’s 2022 Holiday Card Art Contest
We’re inviting kids ages 3-17 to show off their artistic skills by drawing their interpretation of our 2022 Holiday Theme: “Holiday Fun with Family and Friends”. Enter today for your chance to be one of five featured artists in our 2022 Holiday Card Collection!...
NEW ONLINE CLASSES! See the Fall Line-up for Online ASL Classes
Want to print and/or download a copy of the Online Class Schedule? Here's the link!
ASL Video of the Week 9/15/22: Sesame Street: “If You Love Counting and You Know It” in ASL!
Get ready to count, clap, jump, and count some more in The Count's version of this classic nursery rhyme, If You Love Counting and You Know It, in ASL! ASL video and translation created by Hypernovas ProductionsASL performed by Chelsea Lee, Joey Antonio, and Phelan...
ASL Video of the Week 9/8/22: Introducing DCMP’s newest feature – ASL POP-UP PLAYER
This week's ASL video features our allied partner and sponsor: Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) and their new accessibility feature: the ASL Pop-up Player! DCMP has hundreds of videos in ASL (which can be identified by the circular ASL icon) on their...
September 2022: Celebrate Deaf Awareness Month
This month provides us with the opportunity to highlight the importance of providing equal access to members of our communities who are Deaf, hard of hearing, or experiencing hearing loss. Here at ASDC, we believe that deafness is not a disability, but language...
Deaf Business Spotlight: Artfully Artistic
This week, we spotlight a Deaf Small Business, Artfully Artistic ! Czaza is the owner and she shares her talent that is for sale. “Hello, everyone. My name is Czaza. I own a small business called Artfully Artistic. What do we do? We create handmade framed 3D “I love...
ASL Video of the Week: Signs of Fall
FALL has different meanings in different sentences! Sentences are reading opportunities, not ASL translations. This video encourages reading comprehension for deaf children and others who are learning English. ASL learners can pick up ASL vocabulary, classifiers, and...
ASL Video of the Week: David Goes to School
Age hasn't dampened the now school-age David's energy, but at least his exhausted mother gets a break! Now the teacher has her hands full with her new class clown, truant, and troublemaker rolled into one. Can David ever hope to earn a gold star? Your little one will...
ASL Video of the Week: The Wizard of Oz in ASL
In the fall of 2011, Florida School for the Deaf and Blind (FSDB) Deaf Elementary Eyes Alive! performing arts troupe teachers and students worked two days a week for five months on “The Wizard of Oz” production. It was a delightful and enriching experience...
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ASL Stories Directory
We’ve made it easy for you to find hundreds of free videos of ASL retellings of your child’s favorite books. Search for stories by your child’s age or by the book’s title.
Practice ASL online!
Sign with a Deaf adult in real time and choose your conversation topics. Or your child can join “Friends Like Me” and chat with other deaf and hard of hearing children their age once a week. ASDC members get 5 FREE sessions (a $125 value). Not a member yet? Join ASDC.