American Sign Language
Tutoring & Ccoaching Services
Diana Cho is here to help! As an experienced ASL teacher, tutor, and coach, Diana provides the following types of
services to people from all walks of life. Whether you are an interpreter, teacher, manager, co-worker, family member, or friend, Diana will help you improve your strengths.
Service #1: ASL Tutoring Support for ASL Students
Learn basic American Sign Language skills, take your current ASL skills to the next level, or have an open dialogue with Diana about working with Deaf people and how to be a better support to them. Whether you are looking to ace your ASL classes or prepare for a test, Diana will help you develop and refine your skills. Improving your ASL skills during one or more 50-minute sessions will enable you to become better integrated into the Deaf community.
Service #2: Conversation Practice & Comprehension Follow-Up
Engage in ASL open dialogues at your own pace. Serving as a language model, Diana will support new and advanced ASL interpreters by helping you to refine your ASL receptive and expressive skills as an interpreter, particularly your usage of non-manual marking and pauses, which provide important grammatical context to your signs. Diana will share her observations regarding your ASL comprehension, emphasizing your signing strengths and where you have room for improvement.
Service #3: ASL Diagnostic Feedback for Interpreters
Diagnostic feedback provides explicit insights into your English-to-ASL interpretation. During your tutoring session, you will perform a cold interpretation of a video featuring spoken English. Then, Diana will provide feedback on your signing work. Alternatively, you may bring a 5-to-15-minute videotaped sample of your interpreting work for my detailed feedback and analysis.
Pricing & Booking
Schedule your first 50-minute session through the interactive calendar below. Please contact Diana at Coach.DianaCho@proton.me for pricing information.
Testimonials
T.C.
Senior Scientist in one of the Academic Health Sciences Centre Network Hospitals & Professor
"I have been taking ASL classes for about 18 months. Most of the courses have used the Naturally Signing curriculum although I have also taken a couple of specialty classes. Three courses into my ASL journey, I decided to find a tutor as there were increasingly more vocabulary and concepts that I was not fully grasping in class; the quantum of material and speed of teaching seemed to accelerate. I was fortunate enough to find Diana's tutoring service. I have never looked back! Diana is an extraordinary ASL teacher. I have particularly appreciated her mentorship regarding different ways to express concepts according to ASL structure, her gentle correction of my signs, her amazing tips on pacing, pauses and non-manual markers, and her critical feedback on my feeble storytelling attempts. I feel that my signing is clearer, my receptive abilities sharper, and my confidence in signing strengthened under Diana's tutelage. My ASL course grades improved measurably with Diana's coaching. I unequivocally recommend Diana as an ASL teacher/tutor."
L.M.
"I enlisted Diana's help to assist me in my ASL "Signing Naturally Level 3 Vista" online classes. Her teaching skills are excellent. Diana is very attentive to detail which has vastly helped me improve my signing abilities. Specifically, I found her most helpful in assisting me with ASL sentence structure; she gave me the much-needed constructive criticism of my storytelling for class video assignments. In turn, my learning curve improved much quicker and was reflected in my grades. Her tutoring services are always done with kindness, lots of encouragement, patience and are inspiring. I highly recommend Diana to anyone looking for ASL support."
Sarah B.
"I have been receiving tutoring from Diana for a few months now and she is awesome! I have been learning ASL from
a variety of sources for about 10 years and my signing was quite disjointed. Diana is helping me understand how to
put it all together and present my signing in a clean, clear, smooth way."
Anonymous
Teacher interested in direct communication with students at a remote
school that provides a Deaf mentor for the Deaf student
"Diana quickly understood our unique school context and our need as hearing educators to better work
with our Deaf student. She challenged me in her clear and direct instructional style to refine and extend
my ASL usage. She never let me get away with sloppy signing. She's more than just our instructor; she's a trusted
mentor and sounding board. She has helped us navigate our way as our student's ASL acquisition and curiosity
about learning and the world grows in leaps and bounds. We've shared our joy about his progress
with Diana and she has genuinely reflected our happiness back to us. She's helped us realize
that we are part of a larger picture that's making a difference in this young man's life."
For more information about Diana and her life coaching service, please go to www.DianaCho.com.