This website is designed to help teachers plan for ASL instruction for deaf and hard of hearing students nationwide. These standards set the foundation and describe the general expectations of students learning ASL as a first language across grades K-12. The Anchor Standards are separated into five sections: Viewing, Published Signing, Discourse and Presentation, Language,and Fingerspelling and Fingerreading.
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