Inc Institute for Disabilities Research and Training

If you are a BING-O fan, then you will enjoy playing SIGN-O. This game is an entertaining way to learn American Sign Language or just have fun using the signs you already know. It's played with a single category of words from topics like animals, clothing, colors, feelings, food, etc or with all of the over 3,000 signs included on the project. The format is very easy: when a sign video appears, the player clicks on the English word on the gameboard...

Developed for beginning signers, ages 8 and up, this CD-ROM presents 30 lessons designed to develop basic ASL conversational skills. This eight-class course includes over 360 signs and signed sentences along with 75 skill-building quizzes and concept-reinforcing exams.

This CD-ROM is a visual, interactive tool designed to improve receptive fingerspelling skills. Beginners learn to recognize the different hand shapes that make up the letters of the manual alphabet. Signers of varying ability levels can practice reading fingerspelled words at prescribed speeds. Tests are included to evaluate progress.

ASL Songs for Kids presents six songs typically learned by young children. It contains two short songs, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and Happy Birthday, and four songs that have multiple verses, The Ants Go Marching, Old MacDonald, The Wheels on the Bus, and The Green Grass Grows All Around. As the songs are sung, Paws the dog signs, and graphics convey the lyrics, as well as information about the notes and volume. The songs can be viewed with...

Focuses on vocabulary expansion in both American Sign Language and English. The project contains 14 pictures of vacations that a child might experience. Each picture has objects related to that vacation and as the mouse moves over the image, it will change to a paw every time the item is clickable. Once an item is clicked, a video appears with Paws the dog giving the sign for that item. The English word equivalent is displayed as well. There...

This software provides information about cued speech, a manual support system invented to improve reading abilities of deaf and hard of hearing persons. Cued speech combines handshapes and placements with mouth movements to represent the consonants anf vowels of a language. In addition to presenting the complete American English system in fourteen lessons with an additional class providing extra practice, this DVD provides a brief history, a comprehensive...

Developed by the Institute for Disabilities Research and Training, this unique software program produces support for reading by presenting American Sign Language art images above text as it is typed. Some additional features include presenting choices if there is more than one sign for an English word, the use of a dictionary component to find and print individual words and the ability to customize flashcards using any of the over 5000 signs in the...