Lifeprint.com: ASL University
News flash:
"Safari Bill"
(a.k.a. Dr. Bill) is now back from doing the "ASL Safari: Guyana"
Train the Trainer workshop! Details ►
► Welcome :)
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Free Lessons
► Lifeprint Library
► Get this website on a CD
► Dr. Bill's
Fingerspelling tool
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Sign Language
(graphics
and fingerspelling charts)
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First 100 Signs
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Bibliography
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Bookstore
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Checklist
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Contact
| Course Advisor
| Course Catalog
| Dictionary
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Fingerspelling Tool
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Fingerspelling explanation
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Fingerspelling Quizzes
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Fingerspelling Wallpaper:
ABC's
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Font Download
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Glossary
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Dr. Bill "quick bio" |
Longer Bio
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Interpreting
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Jokes
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Lessons
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Letter to the Student
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Library
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Newsletter
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Numbers
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Permission
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Reflections of an ASL Student (Peer
Advice)
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Registration (You do
not need to
register)
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Resources
| Safari Bill
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Schedule
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Translate using bablefish
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Syllabi
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Teaching ASL (Advice and
resources for teachers)
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Terminology
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Testing
(under construction)
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Why study ASL?
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Workbook download (under constant
development)
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Archives
| Accreditation
Note: The "Spell it" tool
below isn't on the ASLU disk, but it is on the Fingerspelling disk.
For more fingerspelling items, visit http://asl.ms
Note: For more Sign
Language-related topics, visit the:
In a message dated 6/5/2006 11:19:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time, christy1246@______ writes:
I just had to tell you that I love your site. I have a perfectly healthy 2 year old that refuses to talk. We have a vocabulary of 124 signs most of what are on the 100 signs page. We constantly go through the "What's The Sign For ..." and pull up the bookmark of your web page. If you actually have time to read this email can you answer a question...We need a bigger list of signs, would you recommend me going through the lessons or are you working on a more signs page of maybe 100 to 200 of the most commonly used signs?
Christy,
Interesting that you would ask.
The main series of lessons in the ASL
University Curriculum are based on research I did into what are the most
common concepts used in everyday communication. I compiled lists of
concepts from concordance research that was based on a language database
(corpus) of
hundreds of thousands of language samples. Then I took the most
frequently used concepts and translated those concepts into their equivalent
ASL counterparts and placed them into the lessons moving from most
frequently used to less frequently used.
Thus, going through the lessons sequentially starting with lesson 1 allows
you to reach communicative competence very quickly--and it is based on
second language acquisition research (mixed with a couple decades of real
world teaching experience).
Cordially,
Dr. Bill
p.s. Another very real and important part of the Lifeprint ASL curriculum project is that of being able to use the "magic" of the internet to provide a high quality curriculum to those who need it the most but are usually least able to afford it.
(That picture sums up my philosophy regarding curriculum. Students shouldn't
have to pay outrageous amounts of money just to learn sign language.
-Dr. Bill)
