Brief bio for introductions:
Dr. Bill Vicars is an international presenter and educator who has taught ASL and Deaf Studies for over 25 years including semester-long courses regarding Deaf Studies and visual language linguistics as well as 10-day "Train the Trainer" workshops. He has conducted numerous ASL immersion boot-camps, excursions, and accelerated courses. He coordinated and taught in the ASL and Deaf Studies program at Sacramento State University as a full-time, tenured, full-professor for many years and is currently the director of Lifeprint Institute and the online resource "ASL University." He recently developed a 12,000 video clip to an online "Sign Bank." He is also a YouTube creator and his channel has over ten million views and more than 100,000 subscribers.
Notes:
* ASL University: https://Lifeprint.com
* YouTube channel: https://YouTube.com/billvicars
* Sign Bank: https://www.youtube.com/c/Lifeprint-signs/
* 10-day Train the Sign Language Trainer workshop: National Center for Education Research and Development, (Guyana)
* Total Immersion Boot Camp: Carson City School District, Nevada
* Three-day "Total Immersion Excursions" to theme parks (including Disneyland, Six Flags, Sea World, Knotsberry Farm, Universal Studios, etc.)
* Hyper-Immersions: Week-long semi-private ASL immersions combining intense ASL instruction and mentorship.
* Train the Trainer and Visual Language Linguistics: The Singapore Association for the Deaf, (Singapore)
* For more information on Dr. Bill, see: http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/bio.htm