RI ASL CLUB / Events and announcements

The RI ASL Club is part of ASLA and affords students the opportunity to experience a voice-off environment with classmates, students from other levels and members of the Deaf community.

Each year, RI ASL Club organizes events to allow students from different levels to be together, to meet members of the Deaf community, and practice signing in a relaxed environment.

Our next event is Jan 28 - movie night.

  1. An on-line course is currently being prepared.  Filming is now complete. We will offer the online course very soon.  This course is ideal for homeschoolers and school systems using it for professional development. See the page “Workshops and Professional Development”


  2. Our 2011 four day ASL Immersion was a huge success! Thursday, students learned about Martha’s Vineyard - the six towns and their unique history, what there is to see in each town, the background of the signing community there. Students learned new vocabulary and classifiers.  I presented my story on meeting a Deaf person for the first time and it was on Martha’s Vineyard. On Friday, we left just before 8 a.m. for New Bedford, Ma. and took the high speed ferry past the Elizabeth Islands, through the narrow channel that separates M.V. from the mainland and then on to the town of Tisbury, commonly called Vineyard Haven on M.V.     There was a lot of congestion as our trip coincided with president Obama’s visit. We took a bus tour that went from Tisbury to Oak Bluffs, then south to Edgartown. Next we went west to Chilmark and on to Aquinnah, formerly known as Gay Head, the only Indian town in New England. After a brief stop, we started back as our guide explained more about the homes and land and history…up through West Tisbury, back through Tisbury and on to Oak Bluffs to eat and see the gingerbread houses. On Saturday, we talked about all the new vocabulary we learned and some of the funny stories we had from the experience. After lunch, we talked about classifiers we could use to describe what we had seen on the island.

  3. We have calendars for 2012. Listed on the calendars are all of our courses, workshops, Immersions, RI ASL Club events and online courses.

  4. We have three Immersions this coming year - April, July and August.  We are planning them now and will have details soon.

Our RI ASL Club president is Kimberly Rose, a level 11 student.

Manny