2008 ASL Roundtable Symposium

Hosted by The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf

October 24-25, 2008

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The ASL Roundtable Symposium is for ASL Specialists, ASL Teachers, Curriculum Coordinators, Supervisors with responsibilities for ASL programs, educators, and other persons involved in ASL learning, ASL teaching, and ASL curriculum development to provide opportunities to learn more about ASL Literacy and Academic ASL for our Deaf and Hard of Hearing students.

Important Deadlines:

Early Registration Deadline—September 19, 2008

Late Registration Deadline—October 3, 2008 ASLRT Block Rate at Hotel—September 26, 2008

ASL Roundtable Symposium

on Academic ASL and ASL Literacy for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Friday and Saturday, October 24—25, 2008 Hosted by The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The aim of this symposium is to evaluate and explore key areas in ASL teaching for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students:

Make ASL learning more meaningful in the classroom
Reach consensus on communication, social and literacy skills in ASL
Enhance school-wide ASL supports
Discuss the school-wide role of ASL Specialist/Teacher
Examine current ASL curricula and resources
Develop new resources for ASL learning
Use ASL Proficiency Interview (ASLPI) within schools

For additional information, contact Joy Maisel, Symposium Co-Coordinator at 215-951-2115 (VP) or Jmaisel@psd.org (Email).

Hotel Reservations Make reservations directly with the Crowne Plaza at (215) 477-0200. Identify yourself as a ASLRT registrant. Deadline for ASLRT block rate is September 26, 2008. The group rate is $129 plus tax per night. Please plan to make your room reservations early. Late reservations may still be accepted, but availability and/or rate cannot be guaranteed. Free WI-FI service exists in all public areas of the hotel and hotel provides complimentary parking. Hotel is 15 miles away from Philadelphia Airport.

On Friday, October 24th, Philadelphia’s Deaf Professional Happy Hour will be located at TGIF restaurant next to the hotel.

SPECIAL PRESENTERS

Schedule FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 8:00am Registration & continental breakfast SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 8:30am Continental breakfast

8:30	Welcoming Remarks
8:45	Special Presenter: Dr. Marlon Kuntze Optimizing the Context of Language Learning
9:45	Roundtable discussion
10:3011:30	Special Presenter: Todd Czubek The Foundation and Structure of Teaching ASL to Deaf Children Roundtable Discussion
12:15	Lunch (Provided)
1:00	Special Presenters: Dr. Eddy Laird and Bob Keegan—Using ASLPI Scores to Improve Performance
2:00	Workshops ASL Skills in the Classroom
5:00	End of the day
6:00	DPHH at TGIF (on your own)

9:00	Special Presenter: Todd Czubek
	ASL’s Role in Content Areas:
	A Bilingual Model
10:00	Roundtable discussion
10:45	Special Presenter: Dr. Marlon Kuntze
	ASL Teacher and Classroom Teacher:
	Working Together as Partners
11:45	Roundtable Discussion
12:30	Lunch (Provided)
1:30	Presenters Panel
2:30	Workshops
	ASL Supports in the Classroom
6:00	Buffet (Provided)
7:15	Entertainment: Mike Canfield
	Visual Communication Extraordinaire
8:45	Closing Remarks/Evaluation

ASL Roundtable Symposium 2008 Registration Form

All symposium attendees must register. For early bird registration rates, forms need to be postmarked no later than September 19, 2008. Please make checks payable to The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Mail or fax registration form and payment to: Marsha Miceli, Principal, The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, 100 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144. Fax: 215-951-4722.

Registration Information Please Print Clearly. Last Name ___________________________ First Name __________________________ Badge Name ______________________________________________________________ Title _____________________________________________________________________ Department/Program ______________________________________________________ School/Institution __________________________________________________________ Mailing Address ___________________________________________________________ City _________________________________ State & Zip____________________________ Email ____________________________________________________________________ Videophone ______________________________________________________________ Phone ________________________ Fax ______________________________________ I am reached during the day by: ____ Email _____ VideoPhone ____ Phone (check all that apply)
Registration Fees: (Circle one) Early Late Postmarked by 9/19/2008 $200 Late Postmarked by 10/3/2008 $250
Method of Payment: Money Order Check (Circle One) Signature ___________________________________ Date ____________________
IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Early registration deadline: September 19, 2008 Late registration deadline: October 3, 2008 ASLRT Block Rate at Hotel Expires on September 26, 2008

Registration Information Please Print Clearly.

Last Name ___________________________ First Name __________________________

Badge Name ______________________________________________________________

Title _____________________________________________________________________

Department/Program ______________________________________________________

School/Institution __________________________________________________________

Mailing Address ___________________________________________________________

City _________________________________ State & Zip____________________________

Email ____________________________________________________________________

Videophone ______________________________________________________________

Phone ________________________ Fax ______________________________________

I am reached during the day by: ____ Email _____ VideoPhone ____ Phone (check all that apply)

Registration Fees: (Circle one)

Early Late Postmarked by 9/19/2008 $200

Late Postmarked by 10/3/2008 $250

Method of Payment: Money Order Check (Circle One)

Signature ___________________________________ Date ____________________

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Early registration deadline: September 19, 2008
Late registration deadline: October 3, 2008
ASLRT Block Rate at Hotel Expires on September 26, 2008

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For many years, Germantown has been home to the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (PSD). This spring the Big Picture Program of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and PSD will begin an exciting new mural project based on aspects of Deaf culture. The mural will be located at the corner of Germantown Ave. and Maplewood Ave. and will also pay tribute to it’s location in Germantown. The muralist on the project will develop a design based on input given by members of the PSD, Deaf, and the Germantown communities in the community meetings listed on the back. She will also visit several PSD classes during the spring and work with students on developing the mural design. During the summer students in both the Big Picture Program and PSD’s summer program will assist in painting the mural.

We want your input on this mural! If you are a member of the Deaf community, PSD community or the Germantown community and want to be involved in the mural process, please join us for the meetings on the back of this flyer to contribute your thoughts and ideas to the mural design.

Community members present will work on a theme for the mural, brainstorm ideas, and help decide on images for the mural. Muralist Michelle Ortiz will be present to hear all input and collect images.

FOR THIS MEETING, PLEASE BRING pictures, images and ideas that you would like to see in the mural. We will also be asking for volunteers who are interested in modeling for the mural.

Muralist Michelle Ortiz will present the mural design she created using the images and ideas from the Image Discussion. Community members at this meeting will provide feedback and request any desired changes.

(Location tentative) In the PSD Early Childhood Center Multi-purpose room, 143 W. Coulter St.

Using feedback from the previous meeting, muralist Michelle Ortiz will revise the mural design. The final design will be presented at this meeting for your approval.

If you would like to receive information and updates on the project, please email kacie.king@muralarts.org

Subject: ASL Study Group

Attention hearing students, family, or anyone interested in learning ASL!!! Would you like more practice signing outside of the classroom? Are you looking for a casual, friendly environment to engage in discussion and focus your expressive and receptive skills, while learning about Deaf culture? Please join our ASL study group!

We meet weekly on Wednesdays at 7:15pm in the Starbucks on 9th and South Sts. We welcome people from all levels, from advanced to those with minimal ASL knowledge (please practice the alphabet before coming). Deaf are welcome and encouraged to come as well and join our current Deaf members in helping us refine our signing skills and understanding of the Deaf world!

Please note that this is not to be used for community hours or as a substitute for ASL classes. This group is intended to provide additional practice outside of a classroom, helping students with their expressive and receptive skills.

If you are interested, please contact Alison Gerber at alisongerber718@yahoo.com

James Castle (1899–1977) is among the many artists who have received growing attention over the past few decades for producing remarkable works of art without undergoing formal or conventional training. Castle’s work is especially admired for its unique homemade quality combined with the acute visual sensibility that characterizes his drawings, colored wash pieces, handmade books, “word, sign, and symbol” works, and cardboard and paper constructions. A great deal of the artist’s imagery is rooted in his rural surroundings. He especially depicts the interiors and exteriors of the various structures on the three small farms in Garden Valley, Idaho, and around Boise that the Castle family occupied successively during his lifetime.

This exhibition, which includes almost three hundred works, will attempt to define James Castle as an artist. He must be seen as more than a remarkable autodidact geographically isolated for the first third of his life. He was also an intensely cerebral figure who grappled with forms of expression that paralleled a number of mainstream approaches in America, including the use of found materials, collage, assemblage, artists’ books, appropriation of popular imagery, and even quasi-surrealist forms.

Castle’s art is remarkable in its own right, but it is an even more extraordinary accomplishment when one considers that, to the best of our knowledge, he inhabited a world of profound and unbroken silence. He was born deaf and never learned to lip-read, fingerspell, or sign. Instead, he turned his obsessive and constant production of drawn images into his primary mode of communication with the world around him. Castle created his own sense of place, and of his particular place in his world, and structured it on paper in a manner rooted in architectural and spatial references to his familiar surroundings.

Among the most evocative of the artist’s creations are his text pieces. These involve drawn or collaged words, phrases, letters, numbers, invented characters, and pictographs. With presumably little comprehension of the meanings of words, he invented his own remarkable discourse, his own particular kind of “visual poetry.”

The exhibition is accompanied by a documentary film, James Castle: Portrait of an Artist, by writer-director Jeffrey Wolf, produced by the Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists.

Admission: James Castle: A Retrospective is included in the Museum’s general admission fee.
ASL Interpreters: Available free upon advance request for tours and book-making workshops. Please indicate your needs when you register.
Guided School Group Tours: Please call (215) 684-7333 for information or to make a reservation.
Teaching Materials: Mailed free of charge to teachers who are bringing students to the exhibition.
Free, Public ASL-Interpreted Tours: Sunday, October 19, 11:00 a.m.–noon Saturday, December 13, 10:00–11:00 a.m. Sunday, December 21, 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Two weekday tours will be scheduled; for dates and times, please call (215) 684-7602 voice, (215) 684-7600 TTY. No reservations required, but there is a maximum of twenty-five people per tour. Meet at the Information Desk in the West Entrance.
FM Assistive Listening Devices: Available free for use on tours and in the auditorium. Ask your tour guide, at information desks, or at the auditorium entrance.
Exhibition Catalogue: Available through the Museum Store, the catalogue includes a closed-captioned DVD of the documentary film James Castle: Portrait of an Artist, produced by the Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists.
Book-Making Workshop for Adults: Fantastical Volumes
Choice of four sessions:
Sunday, October 26, 10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. or 1:30–4:00 p.m. Sunday, December 7, 10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. or 1:30–3:00 p.m.
James Castle made thousands of handmade books, often using found materials such as matchbook covers, cigarette packs, and cereal boxes. Learn to make Castle-inspired books in this workshop led by book artists from the Philadelphia Center for the Book. Come with your own found materials (packaging of all kinds, leaflets, rubber stamps, etc.) and we’ll supply the rest. The workshop includes a visit to the exhibition. Enrollment is limited to twenty participants in each class. $25 per person ($20 for Museum members). Please call (215) 235-SHOW (7469) to register.

Special Book-Making Workshop for Teachers: Sunday, November 16, 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
During this special all-day workshop, teachers will tour the exhibition, then work with book artists from the Philadelphia Center for the Book and Museum staff as they learn to make books and explore ways that book arts can connect to classroom teaching. Four NJ or PA professional development hours available. $32 per person ($25 for Museum members). Enrollment is limited to twenty teachers. Please call (215) 235-SHOW (7469) to register.
Symposium: Alternative American Art Worlds, Presented by the Museum’s Center for American Art
Saturday, November 15, 10:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. (registration begins at 9:30 a.m.)
This day-long conference will investigate the issues linking the Gee’s Bend quilters, James Castle, and Thomas Chambers—the subjects of three special exhibitions at the Museum this fall. All of these artists existed at some point “under the radar” of conventional art history, or were divided into categories such as “folk” or “self-taught” art. Speakers will discuss recent approaches to such alternate art worlds and map the new landscape of national and international creative interaction in which these divisions break down. ASL interpreters and real-time captioning will be present. $50 per person ($40 for Museum members), $25 for students with ID. Symposium admission price includes a box lunch. Please call (215) 235-SHOW (7469) to register.

For additional information, visit the Museum’s website at philamuseum.org or call (215) 684-7602 voice, (215) 684-7600 TTY.
This exhibition is made possible by a grant from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, and administered by The University of the Arts. Additional funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, American Masterpieces: Visual Arts Touring program; the Henry Luce Foundation; The Judith Rothschild Foundation; the Ervika Foundation; Marion Stroud Swingle; and other generous individuals. The catalogue is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Fund for Scholarly Publications. Major funding for the film James Castle: Portrait of an Artist, produced by the Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists, has been provided by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, Samuel Farber, Audrey Heckler, Margaret Robson, Joan Waricha, H. F. (Gerry) and Marguerite Lenfest, an anonymous fund at The Philadelphia Foundation, the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation, The Suzanne F. and Ralph J. Roberts Foundation, Aileen Roberts and Brian Roberts Foundation, Christina and Lance Funston, Duane Morris LLP, and other generous donors.

Top: "Man of Signs," paired letters and PURE! DISCUISSES/BLAWS, date unknown, by James Castle (Collection of Robert M. Greenberg)

Bottom: Farmscape, view from inside shed through shed doors, date unknown, by James Castle (Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the James Castle Collection, L.P. 2007-121-7)

Saturday, April 25, 2009 Rain or Shine
11:00 am—4:00 pm
THE PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

100 W. School House Lane, Germantown
Philadelphia, PA 19144
FUN FOR ALL!

$3.00 per person for all day pass (includes rides, games and crafts)

Vendor Information contact: Nancy Binder at 215-754-4777 (v/tty)
or email nbinder@psd.org

Food for Purchase, Attic Treasures,
Inflatable Rides, Arts & Crafts,
Deaf Performers