Acellus is excited to announce the release of a course designed to introduce students to the importance and expression of American Sign Language (ASL). Acellus Academy now offers ASL as an elective for high school students, featuring Ms. Donnie.
ASL is a language demonstrated through hand movements and facial expressions as it’s a language that’s visually perceived. Throughout the course, students learn how to express common greetings and colors in ASL and progress into more complex topics like family relationships and emotions.
The course offers 10 units, each unit building upon the previous one throughout the span of a year. By the end of the ASL course, students will master the alphabet, fingerspelling, and be able to express a wide range of topics in ASL. Topics range from greetings, food, weather, activities, time, and more.
Students will also gain insight into Deaf culture and history, gain an understanding of how ASL is used and its significance to the Deaf community.
Enroll today to offer your student the opportunity to master ASL and connect with new cultures and communities.
Would love for this to be an option for middle school students also!
Thank you for your feedback! We plan to develop ASL courses for elementary and middle school.
Would love this to start in 6th grade
Please allow this for middle school also, so they can have years of this course.
Our plan is to add an ASL course for middle school students. Stay tuned!
Thank you for opening this new course. This sign language course would definitely open doors for me to volunteer in the deaf community.
My daughter Savannah enjoys this course. As well as my 10 year old, Ana. Savannah decided to pursue ASL as a career because of this course. Our only wish is for ASL 2, but we found a substitute in addition too what Acellus offers. We appreciate this new course, as we’re all signing ASL, learning with her and cheering her on.
Will there be a second course? I am almost finished with this course and would love to do a second course of ASL.
The child has already done ASL one at high school. Are they able to jump into what would be considered ASL 2 at SLS to complete their foreign language?