TACKLIN' Assessment - ASL Skills Checklist

 

You may be familiar with the Visual Communication and Sign Language Checklist - a standardized,     comprehensive checklist used to assist in tracking young children’s sign language development from birth to age 5. Did you know that staff from the Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education developed an alternate checklist to assist in tracking children’s sign language development? This new measure is the ASL Skills Checklist. It is based on Gallaudet’s standardized visual communication and sign language curriculum, Indiana curriculum, Indiana Deaf Education and Assessments of Language (IDEAL) milestones, and BEYOND IDEAL ASL Language milestones. You’re probably very curious about what the difference is between VCSL and our beta ASL skills checklist. The ASL Skills Checklist included all ages from birth to high school! (Deaf applause)

This ASL skills checklist is intended for use in the state of Indiana. It can be administered by fluent users of American Sign Language. Hearing staff are encouraged to partner with deaf adults who are fluent in ASL. Let’s keep our Indiana deaf children’s language development on track.

Who can administer this ASL skills checklist?   

· Deaf mentors/school age mentors

· Early interventionists who are fluent in ASL 

· Professionals on an evaluation team who are  fluent ASL users

· Teachers of the deaf who are fluent in ASL 

· Visual language specialists/ASL specialists