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The College of Arts and Sciences is excited to announce the launch of the new undergraduate major in American Sign Language: Applied Communication and Community Studies. The program combines…
Updates from the Buckeye Sign Language and Multimodal Collaborative (5S5S) Overview
We have been quite busy this past year! In two not-quite-completed semesters, we have navigated the changes…
Play the Project Spotlight: American Sign Language video (2 minutes, 33 seconds) to discover how our instructional design team partnered with ASL faculty to transform an American Sign Language…
New for Spring 2026!! Application deadline: Dec. 1st
Ohio State’s 100% online American Sign Language (ASL) Elementary-Level Teaching Certificate prepares fluent signers and current instructors to…
Marla Berkowitz is an American Sign Language (“ASL”) instructor at The Ohio State University and Ohio’s only Certified Deaf Interpreter. Focusing on accessibility and service to others, she…
“Emily is a very talented American Sign Language instructor,” assessed Dr. Leslie Beyer-Hermsen, assistant dean at OSU Marion. “She’s very passionate about her subject matter and her enthusiasm…
ASL interpreter who gained fame during COVID briefings raising profile of deaf community
(WSYX) — Things have changed since Marla Berkowitz became a daily fixture in the lives of…
Dr. Joseph J. Murray is Professor of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. He is co-editor of Deaf Gain: Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity (2014,…
The ASL Program is excited to be able to offer the ASL 3105: AmericanSign Language Literature course autumn semester 2018. This course is designed to explore and examine storytelling and poetry of…
The ASL Program is excited to be able to offer the ASL 2104: AmericanSign Language Conversational Discourse course spring semester 2018. This course is designed to develop conversational discourse…
Are you interested in using your ASL skills in the ASL and deaf communities? Do you have a passion for service? Would you like to take a course that will change how you see yourself and the world?…
Did you know… since you are an ASL student at OSU, YOU have an opportunity to sign the National Anthem and Carmen Ohio at all home football games?! To participate, here are some things to keep in…
The ASL Program is excited to be able to offer the ASL 3350: American Deaf Arts and Literature course autumn semester 2017. The course will survey literary and artistic works about being deaf that…
It is hard to believe that the semester will soon come to an end and the ASL 4189S, "The Intersection of American Sign Language, Deaf Culture, and the Deaf Community" students will complete their…
The University Center for the Advancement of Teaching (UCAT) has begun a new grant program to support the numerous lecturers that OSU hires each year. The 2015-2016 academic year is the first year…
Three ASL Program Senior Lecturers have been selected to join three of the University Center for the Advancement of Teaching (UCAT) learning communities for the academic year 2015-2016. These…
Congratulations to ASL Senior Lecturer, Marla Berkowitz, for her recent accomplishment of publishing her first book with co-author, Judith A. Jonas.
Berkowitz has a national certification…
OSU student and Atmosphere Sciences major, Christie Lightfritz, created a video of herself signing a weather forecast using vocabulary and grammar from her ASL 1102 course. Very impressive!
Professor and Director
Foreign Language Center
Diane…
Check the Ohio 4-H website for more information about their organization and read the ASL Idea Starter. Click on Idea Starter 365.06 American Sign Language.
OSU ASL students will be signing the National Anthem at all of the home football games!
You can participate in this celebration of diversity and unity among the Ohio State…
OSU ASL students will be signing the National Anthem at all of the Men’s home basketball games!
You can participate in this celebration of diversity and unity among the Ohio State University…
ASL Silent Talent Night
By: Alexander Childs, ASL Club President (2011-2012)
Language has a very practical purpose, but sometimes you need some artistic expression too. ASL translations of…