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    Welcome and Introduction to the Course
    ChAD Manual: Jamaican Sign Language and Deaf Culture - Level 1
    ChAD Schedule
    Course End Date and Exam Dates (2024)
    Class Recordings
    January 22, 2024 - 3 Days - (Week 2)
    January 29, 2024 - 5 Days - (Week 3)
    February 5, 2024 - 7 Days - (Week 4)
    February 12, 2024 - 9 Days - (Week 5)
    Feb 19, 2024 - 11 Days - (Week 6)
    Feb 26, 2024 - 13 Days - (Week 7)
    March 4, 2024 - 15 Days - (Week 8)
    March 11, 2024 - 17 Days - (Week 9)
    March 18, 2024 - 19 Days - (Week 10)
    March 25, 2024 - 21 Day -(Week 11)
    April 8, 2024 - 23 Days - Week 12
    Group Work
    ChAD Group Project Information Sheet 2026
    WEEKLY TEST
    Week 1 Test
    Week 2 Test
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    Week 1 Content
    Reading Resource: What is Jamaican Sign Language?
    Reading Resource: What is Deaf Culture?
    Reading Resource: Evolution of JSL
    Week 2 Content
    Reading Resource - Non Manual Cues
    Reading Resource: WH Questions
    Reading Resource: Communication Strategies
    Reading Resource: Attention Getting Strategies
    Week 3 Content
    Reading Resource: Nouns and Pronouns
    Reading Resource: What is Deafness?
    Reading Resource: Primary Differences between Deaf and Hearing People
    Reading Resource: Working with Deaf children
    Week 4 Content
    Reading Resource: Parameters of Signs (HOLME)
    Reading Resource: JSL Sentence Structure
    Reading Resource: Cultural vs Medical Perspectives
    Reading Resource: Shared Reading Principles
    Week 5 Content
    Reading Resource: Descriptive Classifier (Size and Shape)
    Reading Resource: Descriptive Classifier (Pattern and Texture)
    Reading Resource: Sign Deletion
    Reading Resource: Ten Commandments
    Reading Resource: Jamaican Deaf Community
    Video Vocabulary Resource: Child Care/Self Care
    Video Vocabulary Resource: Money?
    Video Vocabulary Resource: Break Time?
    Video Vocabulary Resource: Sports and Games?
    Week 6 Content
    Deaf Cultures Awareness - Social Norms
    Deaf Cultures Awareness - Myths about Deafness
    Technology for the Hard of hearing and Deaf
    Linguistic Features - Reading Materials
    Linguistic Features -DV
    Linguistic Features SVO PLCL
    Sign Vocabularies Weather
    Sign Vocabularies Animals Religion
    Sign Vocabularies Nature and Envirnonment
    Unit 7
    Ling...Topography Mapping Giving Direction
    Deaf Cultures Awareness Name Sign
    Sign Vocabularies School Envirnomment
    Unit 8
    Role Shift
    Evolution of JSL
    Sign Vocabularies Money
    End of Course Assessment
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    JSL Training for Child and Adolescent Development

    • Teacher: Ayvonnie Brissett
    • Teacher: Bonivia Darmand
    • Teacher: Kamar Groves
    • Teacher: Petrina McDonald
    • Teacher: Marrissa Phillips
    • Teacher: Christopher Seville
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