Courses

ASL 101 (CC BY-NC-ND)

ASL 102 (CC BY-NC-ND)

These American Sign Language courses (101 and 102) are Google Docs containing instructional videos of original design. The documents also offer media content from ASL instructors and creators across the Web. All materials are meant as a supplement to ASL instruction. These resources are in no way intended to replace the breadth of knowledge acquired from taking an ASL course.

Textbooks

Deaf Education (Public Domain)

This is a pilot project to explore the efficacy of Pressbooks toward the creation of e-books to deaf learners. The research project undertakes several strands of inquiry in order to develop a proposed theoretical framework that would guide the creation of e-books with the Pressbooks platform.

Fingerspelling – A Mindful Approach (CC BY)

This textbook shows how to build a foundation of mindfulness and then ways of consciously and intentionally building fingerspelling skills for the improvement of our ASL communication.

Integrated and Open Interpreter Education (CC BY-NC)

This OER on interpreting offers authors and readers free and open access to current, relevant, easy-to-access, and free materials. The editors have created a space where emerging scholars in the field of signed language interpreting make contributions with the ability to revise as the interpreting studies discipline and the scholars, themselves, develop and change. This OER provides faculty and students readings and practical application experiences that connect program specific coursework and concepts across the interpreter education curriculum emphasizing the holistic nature of the field of interpreting.