Resources
ASL Stories
Apps
Facebook Groups for Interpreting/Deaf Education
- Discover Interpreting!
- Educational Interpreter Support Group
- Educational Sign Language Interpreters
- Improving ASL Interpreting Competence
- Interpreters/SSPS/Interveners/DeafBlind Group
- Language First Professionals
- RMTC-DHH
- Southeast Interpreters Network (SEIN)
History/Government
- ASL CIA has a site called "Teachers to Teachers" that has topics you can search. When you click on "Video Text Links" and then "Information Text" it takes you to a Google spreadsheet with the first link being on Civil War. There are additional American History videos in ASL as you scroll down the page.
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire
- Black History Month
- Black History Tribute: Inspired to Dream Big and Be Brave
- Causes of the American Civil War
- Celebrating Black History Month: Rosa Parks
- Deaf Folklore - Civil War Soldiers
- Deaf In Government
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream”
- Early Egyptians
- First Amendment
- History of the United States of America
- House’s Rules Committee
- Limited President Terms
- Preamble to The Constitution of The United States of America
- September 11, 2001 stories
- The Civil War
- The Gettysburg Address
- The Preamble to The Declaration of Independence
- Vocabulary Builders in Sign Language: American History and Government
- Weird But True - Historical - A Civil War Soldier
Poetry
- A variety of poems available from Cats Library
- ASL Slam Poetry
- Clayton Valli Poetry
- Crom Saunders
- Douglas Ridloff
- Flying Words by Peter Cook
- Hope by Emily Dickinson
- Hope Translated in ASL (Crom Saunders)
- Signing Shakespeare resources and activities for teaching Act 1 of Macbeth
- The Dogs Poem by Ella Mae Lentz
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Tell-Tale Heart Translated in ASL (Crom Saunders)
- The United States of Poetry by Peter Cook
- Translating Shakespeare into ASL
Resources
- Accessible Materials Project Page
- Aslized Resources
- Astronomy Signs
- AstroWoke Planet Signs Video One
- AstroWoke Planets Signs Video Two
- Audiologram Banana and Degrees of Hearing Losses Charts
- California Deaf Education. Resources
- Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind YouTube Channel
- Common Idioms and Phrases Translated into Simple English website
- Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP)
- FSDB Free Sign Language Classes
- FSDB Parent Services
- Gallaudet University: WIlliam Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Play in ASL
- Language1st
- Marion County's DHH Program Resource Page
- Mark Rober Science Page (Science topics to practice interpreting)
- Motion Light Lab
- National Deaf Center: Teaching Deaf Students Online course
- Rewordify.com
- Rocky Mountain Deaf School Resources Page
- Street Leverage (Deaf Culture topics can be found on the YouTube Channel)
- Verge (Technology topics to practice interpreting)
- Verge Science (Science topics to practice interpreting)
- XtraMath.com (Math website that has ASL signed videos)
Stories
- #OperationASLStorytime (A collection of children's books signed in ASL)
- A variety of stories available from Cats Library
- Ace Mahbaz "Game Over" Video
- ASL Stories Directory
- ASLized
- ASL Stories for Children
- Beowulf
- Beowulf Translated in ASL (WSD)
- Dack Virnig "Fish" video
- Deaf Twins "Unexpected" Video
- DPAN.TV ASL Stories
- ERCOD Storytelling Videos
- EWitty Videos
- Ian Sanborn "The Squirrel Story" Video
- "Julius Caesar" Play by Gallaudet Video
- Justin Perez "Surfer Story" Video
- Kids Do The Strangest Things ASL Story by Lou Fant
- Michael Schulz Science Videos
- Motion Light Lab
- Nathie Marbury ASL Stories
- Ruthie Jordan-Personification ASL-Pumpkinhead
- Ruthie Jordan- Aesop Fables: The Frog and the Bull
- Ruthie Jordan-Classifiers: Winter Solstice
- Ruthie Jordan- Dummy Donkey
- Snowy Day ASL story by Jenny Locy (book written by Ezra Jack Keats)
- The Circus ASL story by Wink Smith
- Visual Vernacular-"Butterfly" by Andrey Dragunov
- Visual Vernacular-"Chef vs Fly" by Conrad Baer
- Visual Vernacular-"Disney & Pixar Characters" by Justin Perez
- Visual Vernacular-"Polished Eagle" by Edyna Kozub
- Visual Vernacular-"TIR" by Edyna Kozub
- Visual Vernacular-"Virtual Reality World" by Justin Perez and others
- Visual Vernacular-"Wonder Woman" by Kristi Dorris