Which is the best online website for American Sign Language? Please help.?

Hi!!
I am planning to learn American Sign Language to help the deaf community especially children. Could someone guide me about the best websites about the same. I know the best way to learn this unique language is to get involved with the deaf community itself or take some formal classes, but due to visa and cost issues, I can’t volunteer and take classes either.
Thanks in advance.
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Fantasy TV in the service of science: An open letter to HBO about “Dothraki”

Fantasy TV in the service of science: An open letter to HBO about “Dothraki”
Editor’s note: Joshua Hartshorne is a graduate student at Harvard University’s Psychology Department interested in human behavior and language. He wrote the open letter below because HBO is currently creating a new fantasy language, called “Dothraki,” for an upcoming television adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones . At least some fans are guaranteed to try to learn Dothraki …

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• Local Guard troops back from Iraq

• Local Guard troops back from Iraq
By Karissa Minn kminn@salisburypost.com On the same day that Debbie Martin’s son left home for Afghanistan, her husband returned from Iraq. Sgt. 1st Class Kenny Martin came back to Salisbury on Sunday with 26 other members of the Army National Gua …

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AG BELL -vs- Connexin 26 (ASL Tut)


Prototype prose-poetry? I visualized a basic story-line concept and then tried to freestyle-narrate using linguistic features found in ASL, fused with finger-tutting sequences. For sometime now I’ve been fascinated with the possibilities of giving finger-tutting sequences ‘explicit meaning’ through the use of ASL handshapes, movements, palm-orientation, NMS, and location. Dance is a great medium of expression, although it’s not an actual language, as a result the meaning it often wishes to convey is in nature, more implicit and abstract (not at all necessarily a negative aspect). This concept is still very much inside the creative-womb, I’m just toying with ideas and having fun. I edited the footage of my visual-vomit in an attempt to get rid of some of the thought-hesitation and to enhance the effects of other components. Cochlear Implants: My issue isn’t with individuals who are over 18 years of age, it’s his/her decision. However, I strongly believe implanting babies + children to be unethical. Unfortunately the mainstream population is exposed to grossly different data streams than those of us in the Deaf community. Flow of information affects behavior – I think most people share similar ‘values’ when it comes to the well being of their children, nevertheless because of such wildly different data – there is a failure to connect cognitive maps to the vital behaviors that enforce their true value system and ultimately the determined outcome. Sorry the video-quality is ….