The course is an introduction to source materials for storytelling and the techniques for learning and telling stories in American Sign Language including the selection, adaptation, translation, learning, and presentation of stories. Students will analyze the connections between storytelling, reading, writing, and overall language development. The course showcases the interactive nature of storytelling and its relationship to the reading process. This course focuses on the process of learning to read, with emphasis as to how this process applies to deaf students. Assessment techniques and the materials used in teaching reading strategies in a balanced program are also included.
Relevant research is stressed.
These competencies are developed through practical application with deaf students with varying abilities and disabilities including classroom management techniques and adaptations. Facilitates the development of communication and counseling skills of teachers of deaf students and ASL Specialists. These skills will be applied to conferencing parents of deaf children in family and in parent-group settings. Appropriate materials and activities for teaching ASL and Deaf Culture for parents and families are presented. Specific instruction to support parent's role in the language development of their deaf child is highlighted.