American Sign Language: Images and Streaming Video

A series of open access videos developed at the San Diego City College to teach students subjects such as yes/no questions, action commands, words with double letters, and more.

Explore ASL by topic and learn basic American Sign Language online with free video lessons from Gallaudet University.

Fingerspelling: A Mindful Approach will show us how to build a foundation of mindfulness and then ways of consciously and intentionally building our fingerspelling skills for the improvement of our ASL communication. Perhaps you are a professional ASL Interpreter, a student who simply loves ASL or any person, hearing or Deaf, who has within them the intuitive desire to communicate effectively. In the following pages we will tap into our innate desire and answer the question—how do we take a nuance of language, like fingerspelling, and with gentle persistent attention, strive toward clarity and understanding?

This Open Educational Resource (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.

Helen Keller voices her disappointment in her speaking abilities.

Helen Keller appears with her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Anne Sullivan describes the process used for teaching Helen Keller to speak.

The story of the Deaf President Now protest that took place at Gallaudet University in 1988. Students boycotted the university demanding the removal of a member of the board of trustees and the resignation of the newly appointed president of the university, insisting that a deaf candidate fill the position Gallaudet University president. (Gallaudet University is a world leader in liberal education and career development for deaf and hard of hearing students located in Washington D.C.)