ASL Covid-19 Vocabulary: Social Distancing
Channel: Statewide Outreach Center Videos
Date: 2020-06-04

The Statewide Outreach Center--with permission from "A Kids Book About Covid-19" author Malia Jones and publisher akidsbookabout.com--has created a lesson plan about Covid-19 and a list of ASL vocabulary definitions to help students who are deaf, hard of hearing, or hearing communicate about and understand coronavirus/Covid-19 using American Sign Language.

In these videos, students will learn the most common vocabulary related to the coronavirus. Students will learn: nouns such as symptoms, outbreak, pandemic, and droplet transmission, and verbs and expressions such as to social distancing, cocoon, and shelter in place.  

The full list of vocabulary words in this playlist: bacteria, cocoon, coronavirus, disease, droplet transmission, epidemic, epidemiologist, epidemiology, fatigue, germ, influenza, mask, outbreak, pandemic, quarantine, shelter in place, snot, social distancing, vaccine, and virus. 

Teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students, and parents of hard of hearing children can find more resources like these at the Statewide Outreach Center’s website: texasdeafed.org

The Statewide Outreach Center is part of Texas School for the Deaf, located in Austin, Texas.