Learn American Sign Language
Build real-world ASL skills from day one with expert, personalized instruction designed around you.
Learn Through Immersion
The best way to learn a language is to use it. From your first lessons, you'll be immersed in ASL through signs, fingerspelling, facial expressions, gestures, and visual communication. Rather than relying on spoken English, your instructor helps you understand and communicate naturally in ASL, building confidence through active use of the language.
Real Communication from the Start
Learn ASL by using it. Our experienced instructors focus on practical, real-world communication through interactive, visual learning, helping you build skills and confidence from your very first lessons.
Learning Built Around You
Whether you're learning ASL to communicate with family or friends, for work or school, to connect with the Deaf community, or simply because you've always wanted to learn, your lessons are designed around your goals, interests, experience, and learning style.
For Individuals, Families and Groups
We work with adults, teens, children, families, friends, colleagues, and organizations. Learn one-to-one, with a partner, or in a custom private group.
Choose How You Learn ASL
Private Lessons
1:1 classes
Online on Zoom
This is learning at its most personal. Work one-on-one with your instructor on the ASL skills that matter most to you. Lessons are tailored to your goals, experience, interests, and reasons for learning, with individual feedback and the freedom to progress at your own pace.
Packages available from 5-30 hours
Semi-Private
2 people
Online on Zoom
Learn ASL together. Semi-private lessons are perfect for two family members, friends, or colleagues who want to learn together. You’ll share the experience and practice with each other while your instructor tailors lessons to your shared goals, interests, and pace.
Packages available from 5-30 hours
Group Classes
Make your own group
Online on Zoom
Learn ASL as a group. We’ll create a private class for your family, friends, team, colleagues, or other group with a shared goal. Your instructor will tailor the lessons to your group’s interests and needs, creating plenty of opportunities to learn, practice, and connect together.
Courses available from 5-20 hours
COURSE OPTIONS AND OUTCOMES
Your ASL Learning Journey
Choose from 5, 10, 20, or 30 hours of ASL instruction. The examples below illustrate one possible learning journey for students beginning ASL. Already have ASL experience? Your instructor will meet you at your current level and build from there. Progress will vary based on your learning format (private, semi-private, or group), goals, experience, pace, and practice between lessons.
Get Started: 5 Hrs
Begin communicating visually through gestures, mime, fingerspelling, and basic signs, including colors. Explore how to form yes/no and WH-questions (who, what, where) and how facial expressions convey meaning and tone. Learn about Deaf cultural practices, including eye contact, getting someone’s attention, and participating in a voice-off, ASL-focused learning environment.
Build a Foundation: 10 Hrs
Expand everyday communication through topics such as family, jobs, and hobbies. Practice asking and answering questions about where places are, discussing distance, and giving basic directions. Continue developing fingerspelling, facial expressions, and foundational ASL grammar through guided conversations.
Grow Your Skills: 20 Hrs
Practice understanding and retelling short ASL stories using a signed model. Explore role shift—showing two different characters or perspectives in a story or conversation—and build conversational skills through dialogues and interactive practice.
Go Further: 30 Hrs
Begin exploring classifiers to describe how people and objects look, move, and relate to one another in space. Discover ASL literature and storytelling, and practice sharing personal experiences and memories while bringing together vocabulary, grammar, facial expressions, and role shift.
Meet our Lead ASL Instructor
Erica T.L. Parker
Meet Erica
Erica is a Deaf educator and native ASL signer from a third-generation Deaf family. She has nearly 20 years of experience teaching and tutoring ASL, both online and in person. She has taught at the middle school, high school, community college, and university levels, as well as in private lessons. Her students have included children, teens, adults, interpreters, and hearing parents of Deaf children.
Erica holds a bachelor’s degree in ASL and Deaf Studies from Gallaudet University and a master’s degree in ASL and English Bilingual Education from the University of California, San Diego, where her thesis focused on ASL literature.
Her teaching brings together language, Deaf culture, Deaf history, and storytelling. She helps students build confidence through meaningful conversations, creative activities, and stories from everyday life. Whether students are learning their first signs or continuing to advance their skills, Erica tailors lessons to their interests, needs, and goals.
Outside of teaching, Erica enjoys working out, yoga, cooking, traveling, discovering new places, reading a good book, and relaxing with a funny TV show.
Need some guidance with ASL?
Whether you’re learning ASL for work, family, or personal enrichment, we can help you find the right approach for your goals.
Have questions about your level, scheduling, our method or how many hours to choose? Meet with us. We’re happy to help you figure out the best next step.