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What is the ASL sign for [word]? Search a word in the ASL + Deaf Culture Dictionary. What does the ASL sign mean? Look up a word in the ASL-English Reverse Dictionary. Browse topics in ASL tutorials, or try ASL lessons (work in progress) for beginners.How children sign ASL in Children's ASL Wordbook. How children acquire ASL as a first language from baby to kinder.Browse topics in ASL tutorials, including grammar, structure, vocabulary, and basic linguistics.Learn the structure and grammar of signing ASL phrases and sentences.Browse topics in ASL/Deaf culture, including art, literature and history.Sign language resources and extracurricular ASL (American Sign Language) materials for language+culture enthusiasts, ASL students and learners, instructors and teachers, interpreters, homeschoolers, parents and professionals for practice or self-study.Word of the News for October 7 is SHARK. Ozzy was one of the picks in the 2020 NHL Draft.Learn This Weekcelebrate, honor Native American histories and cultures in the United States in place of Columbus Day.‬Thanksgiving in Canada (Oct. 12, 2020)ASL sign for THANKSGIVING, ASL sign for TURKEY, GRATEFUL/GRATITUDE.During the Thanksgiving celebration amid the Covid-19 pandemic, please stay safe and follow your regional guidelines. "The greatest tragedy would be for Thanksgiving dinner to turn into an opportunity for COVID to spread to our loved ones, potentially with severe consequences. Let's celebrate all that we are thankful for by protecting each other, not taking chances." -- Dr. Deena Hinshaw, October 2020.United Nations DayOctober 24: The United Nations (UN) ratified the UN charter on October 24, 1945. The UN created Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) for people with disabilities to protect their rights and promotes their equality. In the CRPD articles, they recognize and support sign languages, Deaf persons' right to have a sign language interpreter and have education in their sign language. They protect the human rights and promotes equality of Deaf people and their signed languages. They recognizes the linguistic identity of the Deaf community.Storytelling of the Week: Learn some basic ASL signs, classifiers, and narrative perspective from it: The Rooster and the Fox.October 24, 1986: Gallaudet College was renamed Gallaudet University (in Washington, D.C.).October 21, 2003: Decree of the Recognition of Belgian-French Sign Language was voted at unanimity by the Parliament of the French-speaking Community of Beligum. It became the fourth national language along with French, Flemish-Dutch and German.October 18, 2009: Gallaudet University announced its tenth president, Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz. "I cannot understand how a language like sign language - the richest in expressions, the most energetic, the most advantageous in its universal intelligibility is still so neglected and that only the deaf speak it. This is, I confess, one of those irrationalities of the human mind that I cannot explain." -- Pierre Desloges, 1779 Sign language on this site is the authenticity of culturally Deaf people and codas who speak ASL and other signed languages as their first language. This site creator is an ASL instructor and native signer who expresses love and passion for our sign language and culture [...]

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