Special events and announcements

  1. FROM MANUEL MARTIN - A personal announcement for those of you that know me and know my story:

    I am finally finishing my book. I am more than 3/4 done.
    In the course of writing it, I did another search and I successfully found my son Jeffrey after 15 years. We are writing back and forth and I will visit him soon. He is back in N.H.
    He has two children. He had a girlfriend who was killed.
    His English is much better than it ever was and we are able to write and understand each other well. He has taught himself. I have seen pictures of him and he looks happy, as I first remember him. Words cannot describe how that feels.

    I don’t know exactly what will happen in the future, but there are possibilities now that didn’t exist before.

  2. Some changes to our summer programs - Level 5 will be offered on Tues and Thurs evenings starting July 20.  Level 6 will be offered on Tues and Thursday evenings starting Aug 19.

  3. Coming in September - a special program to train teacher assistants and early learning center teachers and assistants.

  4. We will have a picnic this summer.  The date will be posted soon.

  5. Our first Level 1 Saturday Academy will start Sept. 25.  See the page “ASL Immersions/ Weekend Immersions/ Saturday Academy”.

  6. If there is enough interest, we will be starting two after-school classes - one for elementary age students and one for middle/high school age students - in Pawtucket this fall.    The elementary age class will be open to parents also.  If you are interested, contact us and we will be sure to contact you when our plans our finalized.

  7. ASL Immersion.  We are accepting registrations now.  This will be an exciting 4 days of enjoyable, but intensive conversation, activities, vocabulary building, story telling…….Last year, we had our first Immersion, 3 days, and the feedback was great!  This year, it will be even better.

  8. Sat. August 21 workshop “How to Teach ASL to Children”  This will be a 4 hour workshop for students who have completed at least level 1.  It will teach you about the learning process as it applies to ASL.  There will be tips on how to teach young children and tips for your own continued development.  You will do work in groups and share ideas with fellow students.  12:30 PM to 4:30 PM.  $50.00.  This will be presented with voice.