2024-2025 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog [In Progress]
Badge in Advanced American Sign Language
This badge represents advanced capability in conversational ASL and understanding of deaf culture. Successful learners will be able to have extended low-stakes exchanges with deaf consumers in workplaces, e.g., ongoing rehab and therapy activities, check-in/-out procedures, and daily interactions with hospital in-patients; they will also be able to explain key features of deaf culture. This badge is not an ASL interpreting credential. MI-LARA administers interpreting credentials in Michigan.
Learning objectives and competencies should be measurable and use action verbs. Students who complete the requirements for this badge will be able to
- sign approximately 2,000 signs;
- engage in extended conversations using correct ASL grammar and language features;
- express cohesive narratives in ASL that incorporate suitable vocabulary choices and grammatical structures;
- analyze unique features of deaf culture;
- identify examples of autism; and
- explain connections between cultural influences and identity formation