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We use the site in our homeschooling, as a second language. Our child is 9, ADHD, and does really well with homeschooling. He's exceptionally bright, very active, inquisitive and challenging. Your site has captured his interest and he is intrigued.

Sign language online since 1997

Handspeak^® is a sign-language website, consisting of American Sign Language (ASL) online dictionary, ASL grammar, sign language art + literature, manual alphabet (fingerspelling) + numeral, and others: Baby Talk, International Sign Language, gesture, ASL storytelling and art.

Learning American Sign Language or ASL online

Benefits of learning a sign language

Visual-manual (sign) language, in its richly visual, spatial, kinetic, and temporal nature, is one of the most fascinating languages to learn and explore.

Sign Language

Sign language has been highly developed by fluent Deaf/Signers over the past centuries; ASL or Amelsan is the 3rd or 4th most used language in the U.S.

Baby Sign

Baby Talk, one of the hottest trends in child development, boosts lingual and intellectual developments. Infants can manually communicate needs long before they can first vocally talk.

Travel + Gesture

Foreigners and travelers can cross a barrier of language, using manual/vocal gesture for learners, International Sign for fluent signers, and other visual cues.

Sign Language Art

A sign language with its cinematic vocabulary adds a dynamic spice to the visual-spatial language arts, storytelling, and performing arts.

Animal Talk

Human interest in communicating with animals (and perhaps vice versa) has been around for a long time, via speaking, signing and/or painting.

Professions + Others

There is more to a sign language than thought what it can do. Eg. scuba diving, stock trader, etc.