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Sign Language Web Sites

Here are a few (of MANY!) sign language web sites. Check out About.com section, as well, for articles and more.:  

• Sign Language Index page: look up signs alphabetically or take the lessons. 
• ASL Browser : animated dictionary
• Another ASL Dictionary
• http://www.lessontutor.com/jmASLword.html --A word search – read the hand signs then find the word in the puzzle.
• http://www.funbrain.com/signs/index.html     Fingerspelling alphabet and numbers quiz
• http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/cedir/kidsweb/mysteryp.html     The answers to these riddles are in sign language!
• http://www.koko.org/world/signlanguage.html     Learn to sign with a gorilla. (He uses GSL…Gorilla Sign Language – a modified version of ASL!)
• http://www.state.ma.us/mcdhh/     Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.  
• Slope ASL Poetry: view poetry written in American Sign Language
• This poetry site has the poems transcribed into sign language. It is tricky to read the symbols for the sign, but fun to try to figure them out.
• Sign Language and Braille Resources
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Practice reading sign language at these sites. You can set the speed of the signer for both words and numbers. Remember the trick of signing along with the signer.

• Check your letter formation: choose a letter, sign it and then watch it signed.
• Read the signed word and then type out what it is.
• Read the signed number and then type out what it is.