Teremok-ASL vs Pink Monkey Usage & Stats
Summary:
• Interactive and bilingual ASL/English storybook app designed for visual learners, especially deaf children between the ages of 3 and 7, and their families.
• Based on a classic Russian story, the app covers storytelling in sign language and print.
Synopsis:
The classic Russian folk tale “Teremok” takes on new life as a tool for bilingual education of deaf and hard of hearing children! Through this story of a group of animals who find and make a home out of a cottage in the woods, the young reader can achieve early exposure to bilingualism and improve their language and literacy development.
• U.S. Project Directors: Robert Siebert and Melissa Malzkuhn
• Russia Project Directors: Alla Mallabiu and Zoya Boytseva
• Illustrator: Alexei Simonov
• Storytellers: Betsie Marie Kulikov (ASL) and Vera Shamaeva (RSL)
• Video Production: CSD Creative
• App Production: Melissa Malzkuhn, with special thanks to Yiqiao Wang
• In partnership with: Ya Tebya Slyshu
Special thanks to Dr. Melissa Herzig and Melissa Malzkuhn of the National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning at Gallaudet University.
This project was made possible thanks to the support of the U.S-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program led by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia.
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Education
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Inspired by long-time Deaf cultural folklore (and often a perennial late-night fireside favorite), The Pink Monkey is re-created with fun word-play twists about a lost teenager who encountered an unusual creature in a stranger’s mansion.
While reading and interacting with this story, perhaps you will notice much-loved features: Exaggerations of perspective + scale. Colors. Quirky materials. Idioms. Sense of time. What’s real, what’s not real?
Packed with over 200 vocabulary words, signed and fingerspelled, and with 23 pages of ASL videos, this app is a proud addition to our collection of award-winning high-quality VL2 Storybook Apps.
The Pink Monkey is built and transformed into a storybook app for all ages retold through a digital educational mixed media approach using American Sign Language and English. Brought to you by Visual Language and Visual Learning’s Motion Light Lab.
This story is told in American Sign Language by Shira Grabelsky, a talented storyteller and proficient Deaf educator, and illustrated by JamiLee Hoglind, a digital collage buff and funky marketing guru.
VL2 Storybook Apps are designed based on proven research in bilingualism and visual learning to provide young visual learners an optimal reading experience.
- Apple App Store
- Paid
- Education
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Teremok-ASL VS. 
Pink MonkeyDecember 12, 2024