Bilingual Strategies For Deaf Children

Many Deaf schools adopt the bilingual strategy to teaching reading and writing in the classroom. This means that the languages of instruction in the classroom are the native sign language and the written language of the country. In America, American Sign Language (ASL) and English are given equal importance in the bilingual classroom. Here are a series of 10 research briefs produced by Gallaudet University's Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) Center on ASL/English bilingual strategies as well as the advantages of early visual language and family involvement in ASL acquisition.  *All videos are in ASL and closed captioned.