American Sign Language International Open Academy

Overview

What’s vibrant, visually stunning, engaging and used by around 2.5 million people? American Sign Language. ASL is the third most-used language in the United States, after English and Spanish.

Powerful reasons to learn American Sign Language course from International Open Academy include:

• Communicating better with the Deaf community - your customers, colleagues, family and friends 

• Communicating with babies who can learn to sign single words and gestures by eight months. They can express themselves before they can talk

• Being able to get your message across if you are losing your hearing

• Exercising your brain while learning a vibrant, expressive language

• Learning American Sign Language can lead to incredible opportunities and open doors in your career or personal life

Career path

Whatever work you do, your ability to speak ASL will be invaluable. You can meet the needs of the Deaf community - your colleagues, clients, patients, family and friends - by engaging with them

• Explore the many careers that involve working with the Deaf community

• Become a translator or interpreter in many professional fields including television

• Teachers and classroom assistants who know ASL will be a great asset to the classroom

• ASL fluency is needed for specialized careers in health, education, and therapy