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Continuing Education
CERTIFICATE COURSES
ONLINE COURSE - Signing Online: Providing Interactive Web-based Instruction in American Sign Language
Signing Online offers a series of four ASL (American Sign Language) courses that will give you the
basic skills to become fluent in ASL. In ASL, the hands communicate by forming signs, which have
meaning just like spoken words in English. ASL also means learning how to express yourself using
your eyes, face and movements and body movements. The course also provides valuable information and
insights for communicating with deaf and hearing impaired individuals. Health care professionals will
benefit from learning the basics of ASL.
Signing Online was designed and developed by Dr. David Stewart and Brian Winn. Dr. Stewart was
Professor and Director of the Deaf Education program at Michigan State University prior to his
death in 2004. He taught American Sign Language starting in 1979 and along with a team of
researchers from Michigan State University, Dr. Stewart was responsible for the creation of
the Personal Communicator, an award-winning CD developed in the mid-1990s to facilitate
communication between deaf students and their hearing classmates in public schools. Winn is
a professor of Digital Media Art & Technology in the Department of Telecommunication at Michigan
State University. He teaches courses in interactive digital media design.
To register for the course, please go to:
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