American Sign Language - Beginning I

All-Genders Course; 
​Full-Year Course

When you start any new language, you want to start conversing right away! Unlike other languages, when English-speaking students start learning American Sign Language, they are fingerspelling within the first few weeks, so there’s no delay in communicating in the new target language. Once students have the basics of letters and numbers mastered, they move on to the five sign parameters: handshape, palm orientation, location, movement, and facial expressions. Like all languages, students also learn parts of speech and sentence word order and types. Learning happens in cultural context as students explore the history and physiology of deafness as well as deaf culture, including discrimination experienced by the hard of hearing. ​

Course Approval

​This course is approved by the NCAA.

One Schoolhouse is fully accredited with the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges through December 1, 2025; we are an approved online publisher for the University of California. 

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One Schoolhouse teachers are experts in their subject field. 94% of our teachers hold an advanced degree.
​Teachers are drawn from top independent schools across the country and participate in our extensive training on current research and best practices in online instruction methods.

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