About Us

Ready to learn American Sign Language?

This course was chosen for captioning by the National Association of the Deaf with funding from the US Department of Education.

SignCourse offers a DVD series of the signs and introductory concepts of American Sign Language (ASL). Our list of over 1,200 most commonly used words and phrases has been intentionally selected to represent the most popular forms of each word.

Since 1989, individuals, universities, schools, ministries, deaf schools, home schools and businesses have chosen SignCourse.

Coming Spring 2017: Our new online eCourse which will also be available on DVD or for instant download. It will be designed to fit into a two year university or high school language credit format. Completely customizable to fit your needs, the course will be available with or without assignments, quizzes and tests, allowing you to choose to use the course as your complete curriculum or as a core curriculum on which educators can build lesson plans. Students will be able to submit assignments online or in the classroom, and optional grading and score keeping will be available. The course will be available to individuals and educators. Credit will not be available through SignCourse, but we will provide a list of universities and schools who have partnered with us, and you will receive credit through the university them.

If you would like to contribute ideas for the course, now is your opportunity to complete our survey and have a say in making our future product as consumer friendly as possible!

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Courses

Learning American Sign Language is easier than you ever imagined.

The 6.5 hour video course is divided into 57 subject related lessons on 6 DVDs. A Quick Quiz at the end of each lesson lets you check your sign language comprehension, giving you confidence to move forward.

The instructor clearly illustrates and immediately repeats each sign allowing you an opportunity to perform the sign. The English equivalent of the sign being demonstrated is provided on the screen, allowing the hearing impaired to use the course without a caption decoder.

Upon completion of the course, you will have learned more than 1,200 signs of American Sign Language (ASL), giving you the ability to communicate effectively with the deaf.

Coming soon! Six semesters of online learning! Learn more.

Excited about the new course available for Spring 2017 but want to get started learning now? Purchase our current course and keep your receipt. When the new course is released, contact us with your proof of purchase and we will give you an equal credit applied to the purchase of the updated course so you don’t miss out by going ahead and starting now!

Complete 6 DVD course
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Students Teachers Administrators/Deans

Student Section

SignCourse is designed to fit many needs. As a student of ASL, you can use our course in your own home and at your convenience. By watching the DVDs just a few minutes a day, you'll be amazed how many signs you’ll learn and how easy they are to remember. Unlike sign language books, video shows the motion, speed, direction, and important facial expressions of each sign.

Designed to fit your schedule, the 6.5 hour video course is divided into 57 subject related lessons on 6 DVDs. A Quick Quiz at the end of each lesson lets you check your sign language comprehension, giving you confidence to move forward.

Upon completion of the course, you will have learned more than 1200 signs of American Sign Language (ASL), giving you the ability to communicate effectively with the deaf.

Learn more.

Teacher Section

SignCourse is designed to fit many needs. As an ASL teacher, you can use our course in your classroom as your core curriculum or as supplemental material to your course.

The 6.5 hour video course is already divided into 57 subject related lessons, making your lesson planning easy to do. Each lesson is roughly 30 minutes long and covers an average of 15-30 signs per lesson. The included study guide is an excellent tool that breaks down the lessons by subject and vocabulary lists as well as provides an alphabetical index for each sign so you can skip around to cover subject categories in your prefered teaching order. A Quick Quiz at the end of each lesson lets you check your students’ sign language comprehension, giving you confidence to move forward. Additionally, a test DVD is available to ensure mastery of the course and to remove one more item off your curriculum planning task list.

Upon completion of the course, your students will have learned more than 1,200 signs of American Sign Language (ASL), giving them the ability to communicate effectively with the deaf.

Coming soon! Four semesters of online learning!

Learn more.

Administrators/Deans

SignCourse is a complete ASL program that can be used in the classroom as the core curriculum or as supplemental material. The course covers over 1,200 of the most commonly used words and phrases which have been intentionally selected from ___ to represent the most popular forms of each word. The course also includes a section on deaf culture and history.

Teachers and schools have been using our course since 1989 and continue to produce successful results in the classroom. Upon completion of the course, students will have learned more than 1,200 signs of American Sign Language, giving them the ability to communicate effectively with the deaf.

Our course has also chosen for captioning by the National Association of the Deaf with funding from the US Department of Education, making it an excellent curriculum for schools with special learning needs.

Coming soon! Four semesters of online learning!

Learn more.

Results

“This is an excellent and reassuring way to learn sign language… A ‘must’ for all public, school, and college libraries as ASL is the fourth most common language in America. This series’ low price and comprehensive coverage cannot be beat.”

-Library Journal

“For a library that wants to augment their basic sign language videos with an in-depth treatment of ASL, this series is highly recommended.”

– Video Librarian