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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