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  • Children
    • After School Program
    • Let's Get Active
    • Martial Arts
    • P.A. Days
    • Parent Handbook
    • Youth Night
  • Adults
    • Art Programming
    • Badminton
    • Ballroom/Latin Dancing
    • Dodgeball
    • Fitness
    • Line Dancing
    • Pickleball
    • Weight Room
  • Pool
    • Schedule
  • Rentals
  • Register

Introduction to American Sign Language

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Introduction to ASL, inclusion and access, and Deaf culture 

In this class, students will focus on ASL basic words, introductions, Deaf culture lessons and how we as hearing people can examine inclusion and access in our lives and the lives of others and what that means for the Deaf community.  This class will be geared towards those with little to no ASL prior instructions as we will be focusing on the basics only. The goals will be to be more comfortable signing basic ASL conversationally.
  • Instructor: Sarah Brissette
  • Dates: Tuesdays: September 23 - November 25 (10 weeks total)
  • Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (1 hour 30 minutes)
  • Price:​ $129
​Registration
To register, you have multiple options: 
  1.  Online registration
  2. ​Registration at the front desk of the Community Centre (320 Jack Purcell Lane)

Email Shawn at [email protected] if you have any questions about this program! 

About the Instructor

Sarah's family has a history of Deaf and hard of hearing and she knew giving her children growing up access to ASL would be a game changer. During the pandemic when everyone was wearing masks, she was confronted with how impactful having hearing loss was in her day to day life and since then she has learned while sharing ASL with my children, family, and community."

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