American Sign Language Interpreted Stories
Storysigning is Powerful - Bridging Linguistic Divides
Story Preservation Initiative is excited to share its new literacy-based project designed for young Deaf and hard-of-hearing children in grades K–3+.
SPI has added American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation to five folktales featured in its K–3 Storytelling Learning Lab. These stories are brought vividly to life through the expressive storytelling of Ian Sanborn, an accomplished ASL storysigner and eight-year veteran of the National Theatre of the Deaf. To access SPI’s ASL Interpreted Stories, click here.
Whether viewers are Deaf, hard-of-hearing, or hearing, Ian’s ASL storysigning is truly magical—breaking down barriers and bridging cultural and linguistic divides.
The ASL folktale collection includes African and African American folktales, traditional Native American stories, tales from the Pacific Rim, Russia, and Scandinavia, as well as bilingual stories from Latin America.
About Story Preservation
Our Mission: Story Preservation Initiative believes in the transformative power of story to connect people around our common humanity and create a better future.
Our Work: We are a leading producer and online distributor of original, content-rich audio-based narratives for K-12 students. SPI stories are the raw materials of history, roadmaps to scientific discovery, and windows to the minds of artists and skilled tradesmen and women.
What We Achieve: SPI brings listeners into personal contact with extraordinary people whose stories engage their hearts and minds, imparting content knowledge and fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking as they open doors to possible career paths in professions associated with the arts, sciences, humanities, and skilled trades. We are fully open-source.
When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.
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