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ASL 4+ teachers
You teach the level where students should be moving past the alphabet drill. There isn't a great textbook for the grammar of fingerspelling-as-discourse. Think ASL is that textbook, plus a quiz engine that grades for you.
Launching fall 2026 · signups open now
The grammar of fingerspelling.
When to spell vs sign. Lexicalized handshapes. Initialized signs. The conventions interpreters use in real work — taught as a system, not a vocabulary list. Built from Gary Eugene Mowl's 2011 textbook by his son and his daughter-in-law. Officially launching the fall 2026 semester. Reserve a seat or send an inquiry today.
Teachers
ASL 4 and college-level classrooms.
ITPs
Interpreter training, AA and BA.
Working interpreters
CEU-bearing once RID approves us.
What the course actually teaches
Not the alphabet. The system.
Your students already know the handshapes. They struggle with the harder question: when does a word get fingerspelled, when does it get signed, and when does it become something in between? Think ASL is the answer to that question, organized as twelve lessons and five comprehensive practices.
Twelve lessons, in order
Common and proper nouns. Verbs and abstract nouns. Compounds. Abbreviations. States and cities. Lexicalized fingerspelled signs (#JOB, #BACK, #OK). Initialized signs. Mixed-form identifications. Specialized vocabulary.
Five comprehensive practices
Cumulative video-text blocks from Gary's original DVD, scored against the patterns from the lessons before them. The kind of sustained, multi-question practice that ASL 4 and ITP students rarely get outside a textbook.
Unlimited attempts, mastery gating
80% to unlock the next lesson. 90% for certificate-eligible attempts on the comprehensive practices. Highest grade keeps. No time pressure; slow any quiz video to half-speed.
The camera mechanic
Fingerspell at your camera. Or type. Same credit.
A recognizer reads sixteen letters, ten digits, and three gestures from your hand. Answers with other letters fall back to typed input automatically — no ceremony, same mastery, same CEU credit. The frames stay on your device. Only the recognized letter ever reaches our server, and only when you submit.
Who this is for
Three audiences. One curriculum.
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Interpreter training programs
ITP students at the AA or BA level need to internalize when something is fingerspelled vs signed, how initialized signs work, what a lexicalized handshape is. Drop Think ASL in as a structured module — LTI 1.3 into Canvas, Schoology, D2L, Blackboard, Brightspace.
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Working interpreters
Self-paced reps that move the needle, plus a verifiable certificate when RID Academic Sponsor accreditation lands. Up to 2.0 CEUs. Signable transcript at any time.
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Lessons covering the full grammar of fingerspelling
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Cumulative comprehensive practices from Gary's DVD
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Letters the camera reads — the rest fall back to typing
2.0
CEUs available end-to-end (pending RID Academic Sponsor)
Reserve your fall 2026 seat — or take Lesson 1 free today.
The full course officially launches the fall 2026 semester. Sign up now to lock in early-access pricing and lifetime access. Schools and ITPs: send an inquiry and we'll start a teacher review account this week. Or take Lesson 1 free first — about twenty minutes, no signup needed.
From the workspace. The kit the products are built from.
Every 1891 product runs on the same foundation — so the thing you signed up for keeps getting better whether you noticed or not.
Multi-device web
Tablet on the podium. TV at the front of the room. Phone in every hand. Same URL, three floor plans. Nothing to install.
One Stripe spine
Every product takes money the same way. Receipts arrive from the same address. The studio doesn't sit in the middle of your funds.
Your data, yours
Records, archives, rosters belong to you. Export anything, anytime, in plain formats. If you ever leave, you leave with everything.
Live at the edge
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Captions default-on
Audio is additive, never sole. Every state change carries color, icon, and text. Speakers muted — the product still works.
Built in Frederick
The same person who solders the board writes the firmware and pushes the deploy. The studio that built it is the studio that runs it.
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