Certificate in American Sign Language and English Bilingual Early Childhood Deaf Education: Birth to 5

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This certificate program is designed to offer a program of study for in-service and pre-service professionals who work with or are seeking careers working with deaf and hard of hearing children from birth to 5 years old and their families in educational settings.

The 21-credit certificate program is designed to make it possible for full-time professionals to take courses. The program will emphasize advocacy, language planning, pedagogy, assessment, program planning, and theory and practices in ASL/English bilingual early education. In alignment with the Department of Education鈥檚 mission, the program will emphasize culturally relevant critical pedagogy as a goal for the candidates to become change agents and leaders in advocating for and educating deaf and hard of hearing children and their families.

The certificate in ASL/English bilingual early childhood education: birth to 5 program is not intended to lead to licensure and does not lead to licensure in Washington, D.C. 抖阴短视频 has also determined that the program also does not meet professional licensure requirements in all 50 states and U.S. territories.

Admission Requirements

B.A. OR B.S. degree
Minimum 3.0 GPA
ASLPI result of 2 or above and/or multi-measurement artifacts (use of ASL)
A bachelor鈥檚 degree in Deaf Education, Special Education, Counseling, Social Work and/or any related fields
License/certificate of teaching (optional)
Evidence of successful paid or volunteer work with infants, children, or adolescents and/or families (at least two years)

Courses & Requirements

Summary of Requirements

Courses

PSG-670

Foundations of Policy/Legislative Legislative on Bilingualism: Implications 0-5 for Bilingual Ed

This course is designed to educate candidates about state and federal education policies, particularly as they pertain to bilingualism. In addition, the course will addresses a basic working knowledge of regulations essential to the role and as bilingual early childhood professionals. Candidates will implement policies and regulations using the language planning framework in their work in homes, schools and agencies, and the community. It elaborates and builds upon knowledge and dispositions learned in foundation courses.

Credits: 3

Requisites:

Instructor Permission

PSG-671

Theoretical Perspectives of ASL/English Bilingual Education for Birth-5

This course introduces the candidates theoretical perspectives and current research of bilingualism. It is designed for the candidates to acquire an understanding of the concepts related to the development of bilingual language abilities (signacy, oracy, and literacy) for children 0-5 years of age. This course examines bilingual communities, bilingual deaf and hearing children and their language development and use, the bilingual brain, language maintenance and shift, transference, code switching and language attitudes. The course will also address historical and cultural aspects of bilingualism in early childhood deaf education

Credits: 3

Requisites:

Instructor Permission

PSG-672

Capstone I: ASL/English Bilingual Early Childhood Education for 0-5

Credits: 3

PSG-673

Early Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development of Bilingualism

This course describes the early development of ASL and English in young deaf and hard of hearing children and their impact on cognitive development. The course examines how deaf and hard of hearing children go through developmental stages of acquiring and learning American Sign Language, which is similar to how hearing children go through developmental stages of acquiring a spoken language and how this development is tied to cognitive functions that are the precursors for further linguistic and academic growth (sign babbling, sign jargon, first words, ASL grammatical development and vocabulary expansion). In addition, the course will address factors intrinsic to the bilingual child as well as to the environment that promote and/or prevent their linguistic and cognitive development.

Credits: 3

Requisites:

Instructor Permission

PSG-674

Assessment and Individualized Planning in ASL/English Bilingual Early Childhood

This course will address individualized planning for language and emergent literacy development that can be used as a guide for teaching and learning interventions to support a child's linguistic competence in American Sign Language (ASL) and English. Candidates will apply various American Sign Language (ASL) and English assessment tools to explore ways of assessing diverse deaf and hard-of-hearing candidates' language and literacy acquisition and learning at home and at school. Based on the results of these assessments, the Candidates will reflect on and identify the bilingual methodology approaches to meet the ASL and English language and literacy needs of candidates. They will apply these strategies to home plan, lesson and unit planning, and within their settings.

Credits: 3

Requisites:

Instructor Permission

PSG-675

Applications in ASL/English Bilingual Early Childhood Education for 0-5

This course is designed to prepare the candidates to apply an ASL/English Bilingual Framework in Early Childhood Education for deaf and hard of hearing children. This framework describes how the acquisition and learning of ASL and English (written and spoken) are being facilitated. This course reflects upon bilingual models and concepts and discusses the language planning process required to establish an environment that demonstrates value for both languages. Also, it focuses on meeting the needs of the deaf and hard of hearing children and families that it serves. Use of bilingual methodologies, assessment, effective strategies, and language teaching including signacy, oracy and literacy and critical pedagogy will be addressed.

Credits: 3

Requisites:

Instructor Permission

PSG-676

Family Collaboration and Partnership: The ASL/English Bilingual Lens

ASL and English Bilingualism at home and in school promotes healthy language development and communication, and creates positive self esteem among deaf/hard of hearing children from diverse backgrounds. This course/seminar is designed for professionals to acquire the knowledge and skills to work collaboratively with diverse families and other professionals to support the bilingual development and education of young deaf and hard of hearing children. Participants will discuss a working model of bilingual language acquisition (American Sign Language and English), approaches to providing support and encouragement to families, ways to promote positive communication with families , ways to promote positive communication with families, and the creation of culturally responsive and inclusively early childhood educational communities for all families. In addition, participants will apply a basic working knowledge of Part C and Part B of the IDEA regulations as members of an early childhood education team.

Credits: 1

Requisites:

Instructor Permission

PSG-677

Capstone II: ASL/English Bilingual Early Childhood Education for 0-5

Credits: 1

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Certificate in ASL & English Bilingual Early Childhood Deaf Education: Birth to 5 Requirements

A completed application form An application fee of $75 A minimum 3.0 GPA in all previous undergraduate and graduate studies Official transcripts of all undergraduate study, including evidence of having received a bachelor's degree from an accredited university Official transcripts of all graduate study Goal...

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