Welcome to DHC's ASL I course! Please find information on the course and schedule below:

ASL I will be held in Detroit Hope Center's fellowship hall on Tuesdays. Doors open at 5:15pm and class will promptly begin at 5:30pm, ending at 6:30pm. This is a 15 week course. The dates are as follows:

July 30th - Meet and Greet “Why ASL”

August 6 - Lesson 1 Deaf Culture and Hand Shapes with Vocabulary and Alphabet

August 13 - Lesson 2 Facial Expression, Personal Information, Numbers 1-10

August 20 - Lesson 3 Numbers 10-20. Classifiers and Tenses

August 27 - Lesson 4 Church Signs, Numbers 31-99 and Closed 5 hand signs

September 3 - Lesson 5 More Church Signs, Closed fist and c shape signs, Numbers 100-999 September 10 - Lesson 6 Time, Numbers 1,000-999,999, Subject/Verb/Object topicalizing

September 17 - Lesson 7 Dominant Hand, Body Shifting, Asking Questions

September 24 - Lesson 8 Deaf History, Classifier H, Forming Sentences

October 1 - Lesson 9 Code Switching, Various Forms of Sign Language

October 8 - Lesson 10 Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers, Lexicalized Fingerspelling

October 15 - Lesson 11 Communications for the Deaf, Multiple Meanings for same sign

October 22 - Lesson 12 Calendar, Time, Inflection Incorporation

October 29 - Lesson 13 Becoming an interpreter, various school options for Deaf

November 5 - Lesson 14 Winter and Weather Signs, Q&A session

November 12 - Lesson 15 Agents (people) and Wrap-Up Review

November 19 - Certificate Banquette

This course is free to the community. However, if you would like to make a small donation toward materials and fellowships, you are welcome to do so through this registration. Each participant should purchase a 1” 3-ring binder in order to put lessons and notes in.

We look forward to meeting you! If there are any questions, please call or email using the contact information given on this form.