Beginner Level 1

CA$100.00

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Beginner Level 1 Online

Tuesday 4:30-5:30pm Starting May 3rd, 2022

Thursday 5:30pm-6:30pm Starting April 21st, 2022

Thursday 5-6pm Starting April 21st, 2022

​10 weeks

Instructor: Dellalee Piper (Thursday 5:30-6:30pm) Sul Noor (Tuesday and Thursday 5-6pm)

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​Beginner Level 1:

·      Basics of gesturing

·      Introduction to facial expressions

·      ASL Alphabet and fingerspelling 3-4 letter words

·      Vocabulary: colours, food, animals, family, activities

·      Numbers 1-20

·      Express basic needs

·      Describe people and qualities

·      Basic sentence structure: topic-comment

·      ASL Grammar: directional verbs, nouns & adjectives

·      Answering Yes/No and Wh questions

·      Introduction to Classifiers

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Beginner Level 2

CA$100.00

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Beginner Level 2 Online

Mondays 5:30-6:30pm Pacific Time OR Thursdays 6:30 - 7:30pm Pacific Time

10 weeks,

Monday classes starting April 25th, 2022

Thursday classes starting April 21st, 2022

​Instructor: Dellalee Piper (Monday), Sul Noor (Thursday)

Beginner Level 2:

·      Review of skills in level 1

·      Expansion of vocabulary

·      Directional Verbs-part 2

·      Fingerspelling fluency & rhyming

·      Subject-Verb-Object sentence structure

·      Use of space for talking about people, places, objects

·      Facial grammar part 2, Non-Manual markers

·      Timelines and Tense part 2

·      Degrees of feeling and being (-er, -est)

·      Temporal/Time aspects of ASL

·      Adjective/Adverb modulation in ASL

·      Classifiers part 2

·      Number 21-50

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Beginner Level 3

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Beginner Level 3 Online

Tuesdays 7:30-8:30 Pacific Time

10 weeks, Starting April 19, 2022

Instructor: Dellalee Piper

Beginner Level 3:

·      Review of concepts in level 1 and 2

·      Classifiers part 3

·      Pronominal Classifiers

·      Timelines part 2

·      Cardinal number systems and quantifiers

·      Ordinal number systems

·      Measurement & money

·      Plurality

·      Past & Future tense

·      ASL Time Sequence principle

·      Conceptually accurate signing

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Intermediate Level 1

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Intermediate Level 1 Online

Mondays 8:00-9:00pm Pacific Time

10 weeks, starting April 25th, 2022

Instructor: Dellalee Piper

Intermediate Level 1:

·      Review of Beginner Levels 1,2,3

·      Classifiers part 4

·      ASL Literacy & Storytelling

·      Translating English to ASL

·      Number Stories & ASL Poems

·      Expansion of vocabulary

·      Deaf Culture & Deaf role models

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Intermediate Level 2

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Intermediate Level 2 Online

Wednesdays 8-9pm Pacific Time

10 weeks, starting April 20, 2022

​Instructor: Dellalee Piper

Intermediate 2:

● Review of Intermediate 1

● Using higher level classifiers to tell stories

● Introduction to Handshape ASL Stories

● Learn about Famous People & their impact on Deaf Community and Culture

● English: how to translate to ASL Gloss

● English Idioms & ASL

● Establish settings and characters in stories in ASL

● Intermediate Vocabulary

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Intermediate Level 3

CA$100.00

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Intermediate Level 3 Online

Thursdays 7-8 pm Pacific Time

10 weeks, starting April 21st, 2022

Instructor: Dellalee Piper

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Advanced Level 1

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Advanced Level 1 Online

Thursdays 8-9pm Pacific Time

10 weeks, starting April 21st, 2022

Instructor: Dellalee Piper

Advanced ASL with DCS will focus on preparing parents and family with the ASL skills needed to support your child in the K-Grade 1 education system, focusing on topics and concepts relevant to the BC Curriculum, current events and local educational attractions.

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Advanced Level 2

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Advanced Level 2 Online

Sundays 4-5pm Pacific Time

10 week Class starting April 24, 2022

Instructor: Dellalee Piper

Advanced Level 2 is a continuation of Advanced Level 1. Only participants that have completed Advanced Level 1 may attend Advanced Level 2 or contact the instructor for appropriate placement based on your skill level. dpiper@deafchildren.bc.ca

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Grandparent's ASL Classes Level 1

CA$100.00

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Level 1 class for Grandparents

Beginners who have never used ASL can learn at a comfortable pace with other fellow Grandparents. The curriculum will be tailored to your learning style and pace.

Instructor: Dellalee Piper

Dates: Mondays 12 - 13pm Pacific Time

10 weeks, starting April 25, 2022

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Grandparent's ASL Classes Level 2

CA$100.00

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Level 2 class for Grandparents

Beginners who finished Level 1 course can learn further at a comfortable pace with other fellow Grandparents. The curriculum will be tailored to your learning style and pace.

Instructor: Dellalee Piper

Dates: Sundays, 2:30-3:30pm Pacific Time

10 weeks, starting April 24, 2022

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Summer Playgroup

CA$50.00

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Held in July each year, our Summer Playgroup is an extension of our Preschool-Early Learning Program. Deaf, hard of hearing and hearing children of preschool age engage in art, drama, music and free play activities in a language-rich, signing environment. For children who will be entering the Early Learning/Preschool program in the Fall, the Summer Playgroup is a great way to become familiar and comfortable with the environment, staff and other participants. Register your child for one week or all four weeks.

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Welcome to DCS's Online Class selections.  All classes run for 10 weeks using the Zoom platform.
There are no refunds for classes once registered. All payments are online via PayPal or credit card.
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Beginner series: Our beginner series are for those people who are new to American Sign Language or have taken classes in the past and are refreshing their skills.  Please read the curriculum content for each section to help determine your level.  Participants may be transferred to a different level if the instructor feels they are unable to keep up with the content.

Intermediate series: Participants in this level must be confident and capable of conversing in ASL about a variety of topics.  Participants will build their understanding and use of ASL vocabulary and grammar and be interested in further developing and refining their skills and knowledge of the language and culture of ASL and the Deaf community.  Participants may be transferred to a different level if the instructor feels they are unable to keep up with the content.

Advanced series: Participants in this level must have a high level of conversational fluency and be interested in learning and using advanced grammatical structures to talk about daily routines, current events, and academic based concepts and vocabulary.  Deaf based literature will be used when possible.  Participants may be transferred to a different level if the instructor feels they are unable to keep up with the content.

Kids classes: These classes are perfect for hearing or hard of hearing children ages 8-15 years of age wishing to learn ASL to communicate with friends and family or just to learn as an additional language !

Important information:
- Please register with an email address that is NOT a Hotmail, if possible. Hotmail often doesn't work well with Zoom.
- If you are unsure which level to take, sign up for the one that sounds most appropriate. If you need to change, the     
  teacher will move you one level up or down after the first class. 
- Please do not register a child for an adult class before talking to us first! 
- Unfortunately we don't have classes for children younger than 8 years old. 
- We can only run the advertised class if we have a minimum of 6 participants. If we have less people who sign up we will
  let them know that the class won't run and will reimburse the payments. 
- In the end of the course we will issue a participation certificate. We are able to do this if you don't miss more than 3 
  classes in total