Sign with Me

We found this very cool site which has 100 basic ASL signs that are frequently used between parents and their young children. This is very very cool, it has diagrams that show how to make the sign, as well as quizzes and practice sentences. Here are a few examples of the most used signs between parents and their children.

• Family – mom-dad, boy-girl, marriage, brother-sister, grandpa-grandma, aunt-uncle, baby, single, divorced-separate
• Places – home, work, school, store, church, come-go, car/drive, in-out, with
• Time – day, night, week, month, year, will-(future), before-(in the past), today-(now), finish-(“all done!”)
• Temperature – hot, cold
• Food – pizza, milk, hamburger, hot dog, egg, apple, cheese, drink, spoon, fork, cup, cereal, water, candy, cookie, hungry
• Clothes – shirt, pants, socks, shoes, coat, underwear
• Health – wash, hurt, bathroom, brush teeth, sleep, nice/clean
• Feelings – happy, angry, sad, sorry, cry, like, good-bad, love
• Requests – please, excuse, thank you, help, who, what, when, where, why, how, stop
• Amounts – big, tall, full, more
• Colors – blue, green, yellow, red, brown, orange, gold & silver
• Money – dollars, cents, cost
• Animals – cat, dog, bird, horse, cow, sheep, pig, bug

If you feel you have enough ASL knowledge take their one hundred signs practice activity/test.

To start learning basic ASL signs click start!

For more signs, see the ASL Dictionary.

UPDATE: Checkout this cool post Color by Hand: The American Sign Language Spectrumfrom the Colour lovers blog.