Signing Savvy, Your Sign Language Resource

Summer is here—bringing warm days, starry nights, and endless opportunities to learn and connect. To celebrate, we’re excited to introduce our brand new collection of Summer Vocabulary Builders (word lists)!

Helen Keller was deaf-blind and famous from the age of 8 for overcoming great obstacles in order to learn to communicate. She became an author, lecturer, and entertainer so she would have a platform to share her life story and political views to advocate for others. She was renowned until her death in 1968 as an author and activist who fought for the rights of others. She has been said to be one of the 20th century's leading humanitarians and was named one of the most important people of the 20th century by Life magazine. Read more about her amazing life story.

We are excited to welcome instructor Susan Dramin-Weiss to our team. She is now available for one-on-one tutoring sessions. She is a third-generation Deaf, native signer and has been teaching ASL for 35 years. You may view her availability and schedule sessions with her now through our one-on-one instruction page.

Today we’re cooking up Fruit Pizzas. These are so cute. You can easily customize them to be themed for a special event or holiday. It’s also fun to have kids decorate their own. The article features a recipe and accompanying Signing Savvy word list to get you started on an interactive cooking activity that is great for spicing up language learning at home or in the classroom.

As we have discussed before, most teachers are struggling to get their courses online during these troubled times of the global pandemic. Fortunately, Signing Savvy has tools to help! We ran a promotion at the end of spring to help get teachers up and running with Signing Savvy and the response was overwhelming. Moving forward, we want to continue to help teachers, not only by providing amazing sign language online learning tools, but also helping them get Signing Savvy integrated into their courses and helping their students, parents, and staff also get access to Signing Savvy.

Where I live in Michigan, our Governor has declared all K-12 schools to close from March 16 to April 5. This causes all types of stresses for parents – work, childcare, meals, and financial stresses. Not to mention, feeling fully unprepared for making sure your child doesn’t academically fall behind during this extended time away from school...

We know people are nervous as they navigate how to prepare and stay safe during the Coronavirus pandemic. Schools all over the country that have traditionally been taught in a classroom setting are now being challenged to teach their material online with very little time to prepare...

We get this question all the time, "How do you sign _____?" It is easily the most common question anyone asks. However, it can be a tough question to answer because there isn’t a direct translation for every English word. Figuring out the meaning and context of what someone is trying to communicate is the key to picking the right sign (or signs) to use. So if you provide context when asking the question "How do you sign…" you are much more likely to get an accurate answer. Remember, when in doubt, you should fingerspell the word.