ASL Lending Library

Job Readiness Kit

The Job Readiness Kit will expose students to vocational information that will help high school students with job readiness, interview skills, and pre-employment skills. These videos will focus specifically on issues pertaining to those with disabilities with a bilingual/bicultural approach.

Driver’s Education Kit

The Job Readiness Kit will expose students to vocational information that will help high school students with job readiness, interview skills, and pre-employment skills. These videos will focus specifically on issues pertaining to those with disabilities with a bilingual/bicultural approach.

Fingerspelling Kit

Fingerspelling is most often utilized to spell people’s names, places, books, film titles, products and other words for which no sign exists. It can also be used for spelling words for clarification or if a person does not know the sign. Spelling words with hand movements can also be used to emphasize or clarify a particular word which is a common practice when educating students. This kit is imperative to the success of learning sign language.

English Skills, Figurative Language, and Idiom Kit

Idiomatic expressions are part of American culture and literature. Understanding idioms and where the figurative language derived from is imperative to understanding American culture, our history, and increasing the students’ schema. This will also help teachers’ present idioms as non-arbitrary features of language. Deaf students will gain a bicultural and bilingual understanding. Language impaired students will benefit greatly from the common sound patterns and rhythmic nature of idiomatic and figurative language.

English Skills, Figurative Language, and Idiom Kit

Idiomatic expressions are part of American culture and literature. Understanding idioms and where the figurative language derived from is imperative to understanding American culture, our history, and increasing the students’ schema. This will also help teachers’ present idioms as non-arbitrary features of language. Deaf students will gain a bicultural and bilingual understanding. Language impaired students will benefit greatly from the common sound patterns and rhythmic nature of idiomatic and figurative language.

Pragmatic Play Kit

The pragmatic play kit is a fun and unintimidating approach to teaching sign language and encouraging social skills. The games will also encourage language acquisition in all ages from pre-kindergarteners to parents (and hopefully grandparents too!).

Early Language Development Kit

The Early Language Development Kit is imperative to the ASL Lending Library as it enables early intervention and teaches basic sign language skills to clinicians, teachers, and parents. ASL has its own grammar system, separate from that of English, meaning it has its own rules for phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics. It is vital that a child comprehends ASL’s grammatical structure in order to later develop a strong language foundation for literacy in English.

Fairy Tales: The Princess and the Pea

Storytelling promotes receptive language development and helps children understand rhythmic language and narrative structure. Watching these colorful tales develops comprehension skills, expands vocabulary, increases visual processing, and aids in memory recall. The manipulatives in this kit will aid in expressive language skills as the child retells the story over and over again. As children comprehend the stories and their confidence builds, they will want to read the accompanying story books independently, instilling confidence and a love of reading.

Fairy Tales: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Storytelling promotes receptive language development and helps children understand rhythmic language and narrative structure. Watching these colorful tales develops comprehension skills, expands vocabulary, increases visual processing, and aids in memory recall. The manipulatives in this kit will aid in expressive language skills as the child retells the story over and over again. As children comprehend the stories and their confidence builds, they will want to read the accompanying story books independently, instilling confidence and a love of reading.

Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood

Storytelling promotes receptive language development and helps children understand rhythmic language and narrative structure. Watching these colorful tales develops comprehension skills, expands vocabulary, increases visual processing, and aids in memory recall. The manipulatives in this kit will aid in expressive language skills as the child retells the story over and over again. As children comprehend the stories and their confidence builds, they will want to read the accompanying story books independently, instilling confidence and a love of reading.

Fairy Tales: Jack and the Beanstalk Kit

Storytelling promotes receptive language development and helps children understand rhythmic language and narrative structure. Watching these colorful tales develops comprehension skills, expands vocabulary, increases visual processing, and aids in memory recall. The manipulatives in this kit will aid in expressive language skills as the child retells the story over and over again. As children comprehend the stories and their confidence builds, they will want to read the accompanying story books independently, instilling confidence and a love of reading.

Fairy Tales: Stone Soup

Storytelling promotes receptive language development and helps children understand rhythmic language and narrative structure. Watching these colorful tales develops comprehension skills, expands vocabulary, increases visual processing, and aids in memory recall. The manipulatives in this kit will aid in expressive language skills as the child retells the story over and over again. As children comprehend the stories and their confidence builds, they will want to read the accompanying story books independently, instilling confidence and a love of reading.

Fairy Tales: Jack and the Beanstalk Kit

Storytelling promotes receptive language development and helps children understand rhythmic language and narrative structure. Watching these colorful tales develops comprehension skills, expands vocabulary, increases visual processing, and aids in memory recall. The manipulatives in this kit will aid in expressive language skills as the child retells the story over and over again. As children comprehend the stories and their confidence builds, they will want to read the accompanying story books independently, instilling confidence and a love of reading.

Books for the Lending Library

Sign Language DVD’s (Individual)

S.T.E.M. Media Kit

The S.T.E.M. Media Kit will connect students to the world around them by helping observe, collect, create, and share their own videos that can be preserved for years to come. This kit will help put technology in the students’ hands and increase their interest video productions while simultaneously providing language acquisition, vocabulary expansion, and self-esteem. In order to create these videos students will also have to learn how to operate basic camcorder skills, basic editing skills, and storyboarding. The S.T.E.M. media kit will empower students on a multitude of levels. For example (but not limited to): 1) older students will serve as a role model and will sign stories to share with younger children 2) students can sign a video to their parents and have the interpreter voice for them so they can share news/events and simultaneously parents can learn new signs 3) students can create a story board to bring home to better communicate at home, understand chronological order, and increase vocabulary comprehension.