Old Orchard Beach/Saco Adult and Community Education

This interactive program will enable you to learn basic ASL vocabulary, facial expressions, the deaf culture and issues affecting the deaf. There will be interactive games and communication practices to enhance the learning process. Learn how to use everyday conversational skills effectively as you become more confident in the use of sign language. No class 11/22.

Required: Signing Illustrated Expanded by Mickey Flodin ISBN-13: 978-0399530418 or ISBN-10: 039953041X (approx. $15, Amazon).

Samantha Greenwood, born hard of hearing, received a Cochlear Implant at seven. She attended the Rochester Institute of Technology, National Technical Institute for the Deaf and received her Human Services degree from CMCC in 2017. She works at the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing as an Educational Technician III.