American Red Cross ASL Class

I signed up online for an American Red Cross Basic First Aid and Adult & Child CPR class. The class was listed as being ASL instruction.  I wasn't interested so much in the style of the class and the letters ASL didn't mean anything to me.  I was just looking for a class that covered adult and child CPR on a weekend and the first aid component was bonus.  Turns out that ASL is American Sign Language and that two of the four people who signed up for this class were hearing impaired.  The only ASL I know is the sign for flower and the "I Love You" sequence.  This was going to be awkward. The Red Cross training center had created this class special for a pair of hearing impaired women who were not able to make it to other sessions with an interpretor.  I was feeling bad about complicating the class until we found out that the hearing impaired women had called at 9 o'clock the night before to cancel for a family emergency.  We ended up justifying the instructor's time in coming out to the training center.  In the nearly private class setup (two students to one instructor) we had enough time to slip in adult and child AED.


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