Course curriculum

  • 1

    Course content

    • PowerPoint

    • Examining a Family-Centered ASL Curriculum

    • Quiz

    • Evaluation

    • Continuing Education Credits

Course information

Course description: This talk presents results from the first two empirical studies of the ASL at Home curriculum, one which focused on provider perceptions, and another which examined the effectiveness of the curriculum for first-time learners with DHH children age birth to 2;11. Using qualitative methods, the first study examined the perceptions of providers (e.g., ToDs, SLPs) who had used ASL at Home. Both thematic and SWOT analyses were performed. The main themes were that the curriculum provides a structure or framework which many lacked prior to adopting the curriculum, availability in Spanish, and inclusion of Deaf Community Cultural Wealth. The second study assessed how much parents’ ASL improved over the course of an 8-weeks as measured by unique signs produced and total signs produced during recorded play sessions.

Agenda:

5 minutes: What is ASL at Home, who created it and why

5 minutes: Background: Literature relevant to these two studies

30 minutes: The qualitative study — methods, participants, results

30 minutes: The quantitative study — methods, participants, results

20 minutes: Implications of both studies taken together and looking to the future


Learner outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the structure of the ASL at Home curriculum and how it supports provider service delivery for home visits and ASL classes

  2. Discuss the implication of qualitative findings on provider perceptions of the ASL at Home curriculum

  3. Evaluate the ways that parents’ child-directed ASL changed after an 8-week parent-focused ASL class

Instructor(s)

Razi Zarchy

Razi received his BA in Linguistics and Anthropology from UCLA in 2005 and his MS in Speech-Language Pathology from California State University, Sacramento in 2011. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Speech Language Pathology (SLPD) at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions (expected 2023).

Leah Geer

Dr. Leah Geer is a professor of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies at California State University, Sacramento. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master's in Linguistics from Gallaudet University. Her current interests are in adult acquisition of phonetics and phonology in ASL.

Speaker disclosures

Financial disclosures: Leah and Razi are receiving royalties from Language First for presenting and each receive salaries from Sacramento State. They are co-authors of ASL at Home.

Nonfinancial disclosures: Leah is a member of California Hands & Voices, ASDC, SaVRID, and LSA. Razi is a member of California Hands & Voices, ASDC, ASHA, and CSHA.

Content disclosure: This webinar will focus on the ASL at Home curriculum only.

Continuing Education

This course is offered for 0.15 ASHA CEUs.