Abstract

The Arkansas State Outreach and Technical Assistance Center has developed an interactive CD-ROM entitled A Closer Look: Signs for American National Government. This and future CDs in this series will target sign vocabulary for specific courses in secondary and postsecondary settings. This series is being developed specifically to improve both interpreting services in educational settings and the Deaf students' comprehension of specialized English terminology in high school and college courses. For each term, a video clip will show the concept in sign. Along with the video, the user will also see the English definition and the concept used in the context of a sentence. The goals of this ongoing project: to improve both interpreting services in educational settings and deaf students' comprehension of specialized English terminology for better comprehension of course material and improved test scores.