Song Signing: Rhymes & Rhythm

8-9 p.m. ET Thursday, July 10, or 2-3 p.m. ET Saturday, July 12

Learn how to use advanced ASL rhymes & rhythm in your English-to-ASL song signing. This exciting Zoom session is offered twice, so you can choose between 8-9 p.m. ET Thursday, July 10, or 2-3 p.m. ET Saturday, July 12. Register for $20 at linktr.ee/signplaying. All are welcome - ASL interpreters, Deaf community members, ASL teachers, students, and linguists. Yes, voice interpreters are provided! This session offers a Certificate of Completion and 0.1 RID PS CEU. This session is NOT video-recorded, so you really don't want to miss out
Register for $20

Advance Your ASL: A Class on Clayton Valli

6-8 p.m. ET Thursday, July 17

People who want to improve their creative signing skills need to study ASL masters like Clayton Valli. An organization called Surdists United will host a Zoom session on Clayton Valli (as part of their "Honoring Ancestors Series"). In this session, I will teach you advanced techniques that Clayton Valli uses in his ASL poetry. Then, for the second hour, you will apply Clayton Valli’s ASL poetry techniques through hands-on activities that will enrich your ASL skills, classifier use, song signing & translation works. The session is at 6-8 p.m. ET Thursday, July 17. Register for $10 at tinyurl.com/valliclass . Anyone is welcome to attend, but this session uses only ASL and there will be NO English voicing. If you want to attend, you must register before the deadline: July 10. (The Zoom workshop is on July 17.)
Register for $10

Interpreting Chemistry into ASL

8-9 p.m. ET Thursday, July 24 or 2-3 p.m. ET Saturday, July 26

ASL interpreters (or trainees) need to be able to interpreter general chemistry classes in middle school, high school, and college. Learn how to interpret lab procedures, lectures, and word problems. Anyone is welcome to attend. This ASL session also provides English voice interpretation. Register for $20 at linktr.ee/signplaying . Asma Wahid will be the first signing Deaf woman to earn a doctorate in organic chemistry. 100% of your payment goes directly to support her Ph.D. studies.
Register for $20

NEW COURSE!

Earn 0.3 RID CEUs & a Certificate of Completion

What is Signplaying?

Signplaying offers online courses where you can learn how to create ASL poetry & Visual Vernacular, and how to translate English songs and poems into sign language. You can also meet with Eric on Zoom through the Signplaying ASL consulting services at https://calendly.com/signplaying/asl-consulting-50-mins.

You can also subscribe to the Signplaying email list at http://eepurl.com/iFMWMs. Even if there are no social media accounts for Signplaying, you can still get announcements and updates about future workshops from that email list.

If you're interested in signing children's books, please take these Signplaying courses in this order:

  1. "Signplaying 101: Structure of Signing"
  2. "Elements of Visual Vernacular (VV)"
  3. "Elements of ASL Poetry"
  4. "Translating English Poetry & Songs into Sign Language"


If you're interested in creating new signs, please take these Signplaying courses in this order:

  1. "Signplaying 101: Structure of Signing"
  2. "Wordplay in Sign Language"


If you're interested in ASL literature, please take these Signplaying courses in this order:

  1. "Signplaying 101: Structure of Signing"
  2. "Elements of Visual Vernacular (VV)"
  3. "Elements of ASL Poetry"
  4. "Wordplay in Sign Language"


You can enroll in those courses at any time. Those courses are self-paced, so you're not required to interact with the instructor or other students (but you can if you want to). Those courses will be offered starting now until March 1, 2026.

These courses are for anyone who is interested in creative signing — ranging from intermediate-level ASL students all the way to professional signing artists. And, yes, CEUs are provided for you RID-certified ASL interpreters (for those five courses listed above)!

The cost of the course is subject to change. NO REFUNDS.

Click on any course below to see what the course looks like.

All Courses

SPECIAL VIDEO RECORDING!

ASL Consulting Services

You can meet with Eric directly on Zoom for a 50-minute session at https://calendly.com/signplaying/asl-consulting-50-mins. This is a great opportunity to get help with creating your own Visual Vernacular, ASL poem, or song translations. I can also analyze your signing prosody and provide feedback on your signing skills.

If you are an ASL student or a beginner interpreter, I also highly recommend that you get online ASL tutoring services -- specifically through Diana Cho at www.dianacho.com/aslproficiencypractice. 

About Me

Eric Epstein

Instructor

Eric is an ASL poet whose work has been featured in the Folger Shakespeare Library traveling exhibition and the Rail Switch journal. He has taught sign language poetics and translation through several workshops at four different colleges. Additionally, he has coached and mentored Deaf performers as well as professional sign language interpreters so that they would win top honors in various national competitions. He currently produces ASL translations of English poems, which have been commissioned by English-language poets from all over the country — such as the poet laureate of Missouri. His groundbreaking curriculum in the signing arts can be found in this website Signplaying.com, which has been used by various signing instructors for their ASL classes at Boise State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, and an international training program for signing artists in Sweden-based theatre Riksteatern Crea.