Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 389 - Examinations, Courses, Standards and Diplomas
HIGH SCHOOL
Elective Courses of Study
Section 389.5712 - American Sign Language: Second year

Universal Citation: NV Admin Code 389.5712

Current through February 27, 2024

A course of study in American Sign Language must include instruction designed to teach a pupil by completion of the second year:

1. Receptive skills, including, without limitation:

(a) The ability to comprehend short conversations in standard dialects based on region, age and educational differences even if the pupil requires repetition or rephrasing for comprehension;

(b) The ability to comprehend common grammatical features and use word order patterns in simple sentences;

(c) A basic understanding of longer conversations and messages in familiar communicative situations; and

(d) The ability to sustain comprehension through contextual inferences in short communications with persons who are fluent in American Sign Language and who are aware of the pupil's lack of fluency.

2. Expressive skills, including, without limitation:

(a) The ability to use an intermediate vocabulary and commonly encountered structures of signs;

(b) The ability to express comprehensively ideas relating to the past, present and future even if the pupil makes errors in expressing complex thoughts;

(c) Basic development of sequential relationships; and

(d) The ability to sign in a manner that is comprehensible to a person who is fluent in American Sign Language and who is experienced in communicating in American Sign Language with persons who are not fluent in American Sign Language.

3. Interactive skills, including, without limitation:

(a) The ability to initiate and sustain conversation even if the pupil exhibits frequent hesitation and requires paraphrasing for comprehension;

(b) The ability to use more common grammatical features, even if the pupil commits errors in the formation and selection of the features;

(c) The ability to use word order accurately in conversations and in more complex patterns;

(d) The ability to sustain coherent structures of signs in short communication;

(e) The ability to engage in extended communication that is cohesive; and

(f) The ability to sign comprehensively even if the pupil has difficulty producing certain features in certain positions or combinations and may need to repeat or rephrase his or her statements or questions so that the statements or questions are understood by persons who are fluent in American Sign Language.

4. Cultural skills, including, without limitation:

(a) Increased knowledge of different cultures and of the culture of the community of persons who are deaf even if the pupil demonstrates misunderstanding in the application of this knowledge;

(b) An understanding that cultures, including, without limitation, the culture of the community of persons who are deaf, are a system of values that evolve over time;

(c) The ability to show the manner in which certain values are associated with certain patterns of behavior in the culture of the pupil as well as in the culture of the community of persons who are deaf;

(d) The ability to distinguish culturally authentic patterns of behavior from idiosyncratic behaviors;

(e) Increased knowledge of current events involving persons who are deaf and of persons who are deaf who are prominent in American society; and

(f) Increased familiarity with signs for geography within the geographical area of the school in which the class is taught.

Added to NAC by Bd. of Education by R036-99, eff. 11-3-99

NRS 385.080, 385.110, 389.0185

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