Course: Sign Language (ISL) for Beginners
Category: Languages
Description:
Approx. Start Date: Tuesday 4 February 2024
(Applicants will receive confirmation of actual start date by text)

Irish Sign Language is the first language of many hard of hearing and deaf people. Today many hearing people learn sign language as a means of communicating with deaf and partially deaf people. Signs are made using the hands in combination with non-manual features, including eyes, brows, cheeks, lip patterns, tilting the head and some movement of the shoulder and the upper torso.

Course Content
  • Alphabet, Vocabulary, Grammar, Sign in Context, Expressions
  • Numbers, days of the week, hospital, colour, the weather
  • Family, places, holidays, food, drink & hobbies
  • Group Work
  • Deaf Technology
  • Deaf Culture and Community

There will be no class during the week of mid-term break: Tuesday 18 February 2025
Tutor: TBA TBA
Fee: €135
Duration: 8 weeks
Start Date: 2025-02-04
Start/End Time: 6.30pm - 9.00pm
Day: Tuesday Evenings