I highly recommend this video to parents of students who are deaf who want to learn to communicate with their child in his/her native language of ASL! The videos are both entertaining as well as educational.

Great for students studying American Sign Language.

Fantastic way to learn!

My students are learning a lot from this series and not just vocabulary. They are learning grammar rules and Deaf culture. Students are very attentive during these lessons.

love it easy for my daughter and i to understand

This is helpful in daily interaction with students.

The absolute best beginner's ASL series around! Thank you!

Excellent resource

This is a great series for teaching ASL to either Deaf or Hearing children. It can also be used to teach English to ASL users.

My name is Alissa, and I was told I would become deaf at some point earlier in life. I am currently 23 years old and I struggle daily with being able to hear properly. Since I was 8 years old I had my first surgery to help me be able to hear. Since then I have had 13 surgeries to reconstruct my ear drums. My family never wanted to learn Sign Language and does not care for me to use it, But finally they are supportive in me learning for myself just not with them. I know I will be fully deaf at some point, and I cannot have any more surgeries. My best friend is fully deaf since birth. They have helped me to learn a little, but I am far from fluent in American sign language or knowledgeable really of the deaf culture. These videos have been helpful to me. Thank you.

Our 13 year old son is losing his hearing progressively and is expected to be functionally deaf as an adult. Family Signs classes and the materials on DCMP are a great benefit to learning ASL as a family.

These videos are fun, real-life situations that you would find in anyone's daily routine, which makes them so meaningful. There is a rewind feature, pause, speed up, move ahead, watch as many times as you would like, features. Very organized, easy to follow, and there is print and auditory reinforcement. Can't say enough good about these videos! And they are free! That makes it even better! Thank you for offering these. This video made me hungry to learn more!

GREAT Resource!!

Excellent, interactive, and definitely a great way to start learning ASL!

Very easy to follow and understand. Very helpful

I really appreciate this service! Wonderful and easy to follow!

Excellent video , great learning opportunity.

Use of this video has been an important element in ASL language development for an elementary level deaf student with emerging ASL as a first language. The student has found particularly the family interactions sections highly motivating and requests viewing over other school activities.

Thank you! This is exactly what my son and I needed. Because he isn't deaf, we have limited access to ASL immersed environments for him. At his school, he is given a communication device that he isn't really working with, very well. We've learned lots of signs, through books, Signing Time, and some community-based classes, but haven't been in an immersive environment to learn the conversational structure. I love that this is focused on family life. So valuable! We're already practicing some phrases from just the first 5 videos. I look forward to our journey through the others. Many thanks to all of your sponsors that are making this resource available for families like ours. It's giving my son greater confidence to practice the signs that he knows.

A must see video. Learning opportunity is wonderful

Very helpful to my wife and I as we learn new ways to communicate to and with our youngest daughter.

we watch it everyday to go with our curriculum... So happy to have found this resource

Excellent well done, will show again.

excellent . Thank you

Will watch again

Excellent way to learn and practice sign!

Great video series that can be viewed by older students/adults to learn sign language.

This videocourse is great for younger learners. I use it for high school, and it is just the right pace.

What better way to learn than through the interactions of everyday. This program will help with daily language skills.

Excellent vocabulary lesson for the families.

Truly engaging - excellent

worth to watch many times - excellent

Excellent - make sure to view it many times

Thank you for offering the title. It is very effective in teaching asl.

I love the way the video breaks it down into sections discussing the vocabulary you'll need to know, introduces the viewer to deaf culture, and provides the historical context behind the signs.

Good intro to deaf culture and sign language

I really enjoy this video series. I had seen this once before, so watching it a second time was really cool because I got to see how much more I could pick up. Very easy to follow along and has a lot of information, even if it's just a reinforcement of prior lessons.

I LOVE their videos! I'm deaf and just now learning ASL. The captions make it much easier to do my school assignments.

Great introduction to life as a deaf family

These are the best ASL videos that is still going strong . I highly recommend these. Marian Connor

The video was very useful. This series has been great in helping me learn sign language.

The Bravo family videos, while dated, remain a great example for learners. I recommend this for all beginning students.

Very helpful. I love how the video really takes its time in showing you how to do each sign.

The Bravo Family ASL course is a good mix of instruction, interaction and demonstration.

Although the video is set in the early 90's, the instructor is easy to follow and the repetition of the signs throughout the lesson helps with muscle memory. I highly recommend this series to those who are beginners in ASL.

This series is a great way to learn ASL and can be great practice for keeping up on your ASL skills.

Excellent resource to learn ASL.

Great series full of humor and effective for learning.

ASL Bravo--what a great way for a family to learn sign language! Thank you DCMP for making this series available.

This is a great lesson to understand the deaf culture

the video is a very good video full of learning insight and knowledge.

Good program, very easy to follow and learn from.

Very good program. Very thorough and includes a sense of humor.

This media breaks the ASL language down to easily allow understanding. Extremely helpful!

This video is wonderful. I used it with my children who are all under age 10 and CODA's. They really took an interest, and their ASL skills are really starting to take root.

This is a great way to learn ASL

I LOVE the Bravo Family series! I used it as an ASL student many years ago and learned a lot - it is very "teenage" friendly!

These videos are so helpful for learning sign language!

This is a great way to teacher a well rounded ASL lesson. It covers new vocabulary, sentence practice, conversation, and culture!

Great instructional video that has bonuses of ASL grammar and Deaf culture explained.

This video does a great job teaching new signs and pairing it with communication to enhance your sign language skills!

Wonderful material. Very beneficial and high quality!

Fantastic video that really teaches deaf culture as well as helps improve student learning.

This is a great way to learn ASL.

My family appreciates this video, it is very helpful and easy to understand. Great Video!! :o)

This video is a great teaching resource for students and would work well in conjunction with an introductory lesson on American Sign Language Appreciation.

Our elementary Sign Language Club with 2 deaf and hard of hearing students really enjoyed watching the Bravo family. They asked to watch it again the next week. It's so nice they can see deaf people signing at home.

My elementary Sign Language club loved the chance to watch deaf adults and deaf kids signing. They were highly engaged and signed along with the lesson. We used a 13 minute clip from the video. I highly recommend using this video when introducing or reviewing family signs.

I used this video for my two elementary school Sign Language Clubs. We practiced family signs first, before the video. Then they watched 13 minutes of the Bravo Family, seeing a deaf family signing in their home. They were fascinated. We have one deaf student in this school. Sixty-five second and third graders have joined this after school club.

Great way of introducing vocabulary/signs and how to use them in context.

Bravo family video wonderfully captures all concerns in learning ASL as well as understanding 'Deaf Culture' which is my favorite part.

Great videos! I am happy to share the site with my students families!

These videos have really helped my kids and I start our journey to learning ASL. Explaining why certain signs are used and grammar information is way more helpful than other online learning tools we've tried!

This video is an oldie but a goody. It is easy to understand and catch on to the signs that are being taught. I would recommend this to anyone, new and experienced.

I really like this series. I have purchased the VHS years ago, but cannot view my copies. So glad I could access the series once again!

Very informative dvd, he signed slow and twice so I could understand sign (as a new signer). We are starting to add our new signs to our day. This is great because it shows daily real life signs in sequence.

Good for beginner!

cool

I had requested it to be sent to the wrong address. I plan to reserve it again with the correct address and view date