Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 389 - Examinations, Courses, Standards and Diplomas
HIGH SCHOOL
Elective Courses of Study
Section 389.5714 - American Sign Language: Third year
Universal Citation: NV Admin Code 389.5714
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 third year:
1. Receptive skills, including, without limitation:
(a) The ability to comprehend
conversations of intermediate length in standard dialects based on region, age
and educational differences;
(b) An
increased vocabulary;
(c) The
ability to use common grammatical features and word order patterns in sentences
of intermediate length;
(d) An
advanced understanding of longer conversations and messages within familiar
communicative situations; and
(e)
The ability to sustain comprehension through contextual inferences in short
communications with persons who are fluent in American Sign Language.
2. Expressive skills, including, without limitation:
(a) Use of an advanced
vocabulary and commonly encountered structures of signs;
(b) Advanced proficiency in expressing
comprehensively ideas relating to the past, present and future;
(c) Improved ability to express more complex
thoughts;
(d) Continued development
of sequential relationships; and
(e) The ability to sign comprehensively with
little difficulty and in a manner which is comprehensible to persons fluent in
American Sign Language with less repetition.
3. Interactive skills, including, without limitation:
(a) Continued development in
initiating and sustaining conversation;
(b) Use of an expanded vocabulary,
paraphrasing and more common grammatical features;
(c) Use of word order in conversation
accurately and in more complex patterns;
(d) The ability to sustain coherent
structures of signs in intermediate communications; and
(e) The ability to demonstrate extended
communication which is cohesive.
4. Cultural skills, including, without limitation:
(a) Increased knowledge of
different cultures and of the culture of the community of persons who are deaf
and an advanced ability in applying such knowledge;
(b) A more extensive understanding of
cultures as systems of values that evolve over time;
(c) The ability to demonstrate the manner in
which certain values are associated with certain behavior patterns in the
culture of the pupil as well as the culture of the community of persons who are
deaf;
(d) The ability to
distinguish culturally authentic patterns of behavior from idiosyncratic
behaviors;
(e) Knowledge of current
events involving persons who are deaf and of persons who are deaf who are
prominent in American society;
(f)
Knowledge of historical events involving persons who are deaf;
(g) Increased familiarity with directional
signs within the geographical area in which the class is given; and
(h) Familiarity with systems of signs derived
from American Sign Language.
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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