Pat Dillard Special Achievement Center – American Sign Language I

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

This course is designed for students with no knowledge of Deaf American culture or its language, American Sign Language (ASL). Training is designed to lay a foundation of expressive and receptive skills of ASL used by the Deaf Community through basic linguistic structures and analysis of signs. Content includes basic statements and vocabulary, finger spelling, questions, classifiers, spatial relationships, time and numbers. In addition, cultural knowledge and an increased understanding of the Deaf Community will be introduced. Scheduling priority will be given to students taking ASL to fulfill their language requirement for graduation.