ASL Immersion
The ASL Immersion is a five day experience where participants communicate only in ASL (leave your voice at home!).
Participants will engage in various classroom and real-world activities with Deaf instructors and mentors.
Morning seminars, taught by Deaf instructors, will educate attendees in topics such as linguistics, classifiers and specialized vocabulary.
Afternoon and evening activities, led by Deaf mentors, allow attendees to apply skills and knowledge to real-life and fun activities while on outings to continue the learning opportunities and to build practical conversational skills.
The ASL Immersion event is co-hosted by the MARIE Center and CATIE Center (sister educational center). The event is alternately hosted at either St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN or the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO in early June.
If you live in the MARIE region (AR, CO, LA, MT, NM, ND, OK, SD, TX, UT and WY), apply through the MARIE Center and are selected, MARIE will cover a portion of the total cost to attend.
For the 2012 ASL Immersion event, MARIE covered the cost for:
- Registration,
- Dorm accommodations,
- Transportation and entrance fees associated with outings, and
- Breakfast and lunch for five days.
Selected individuals are responsible for all other costs; including but not limited to: travel to and from the Immersion event, one meal a day and incidentals.
Applicants should be novice ASL Language users who are pre-certified interpreters or students with at least conversational skills (i.e. have completed ASL 4).
Applications are accepted on an on-going bases. Please keep the following information in mind when applying. Specific dates and hosting campus are pending unless otherwise noted. Application are due at midnight on the day identified:
Deadline |
ASL Immersion Event |
Date of Notification |
|---|---|---|
|
June 11-15, 2012 - St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN |
Not Accepting Applications |
1/31/2013 |
June 2013 |
3/1/2013 |
1/31/2014 |
June 2014 |
3/1/2014 |
1/31/2015 |
June 2015 |
3/1/2015 |
Steps to Participating in the ASL Immersion event:
- Submit application and unofficial transcript for the ASL Immersion event
- Be selected to attend the ASL Immersion event
- Complete the pre-screening assessment
- Submit travel plans for attending the ASL Immersion event
- Attend and successfully complete the ASL Immersion event
- Submit a 1-page summary of learning from attending the ASL Immersion event
- Complete the post-screening assessment
Click here to give feedback on these ASL Immersion webpages.