Historic ASL Sailing course takes place at Burlington’s community sailing center [Video]

This past week, the Community Sailing Center in Burlington has been hosting the only U.S. Sailing Association-certified American Sign Language course in the country.People from all over traveled to Burlington for this experience. Rachel Boll, from Massachusetts, said learning from a teacher who knows ASL made the trip worthwhile.”Direct instruction is the best way to learn,” Boll said. Instructor Bill Millios has been sailing since he was a kid.He started this course because more and more of his friends in the deaf and hard-of-hearing community were asking him for advice on how to sail.It inspired him to get certified as an instructor and create this one-of-a-kind course.”We share the same way of walking in the world. We understand what it’s like to use vision as your main form of communication. So, the way that I frame things or explain things are specific for them,” Millios said.At the beginning of the …