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I feel like I remember seeing an article in the last 6 months or so about there being lots of resources out there teaching ASL that were doing a bad job. I was unable to find the article, so I don't really have any more detail than that.

In trying to find the article, I found someone that said that many folks that that it's NOT OK for someone that can hear to teach ASL. That deaf people are oppressed, and only deaf people should teach ASL. It was a YT video by a woman who is an interpreter and whose wife is deaf. It's fine to be a councilor or even interpreter just so long as you aren't teaching it. I was surprised. But then I've had pretty much 0 experience with deaf folks other than seeing them in places like Sesame St when I was a kid or TV or movies. And there's a cashier at the Whole Foods that we go to who is deaf. Apparently, there's some controversy, some folks think that it doesn't matter who teaches it.

Based on the article that I previously mentioned, I'd do research to try to ensure that whatever resource I found (at least if it's free and online) is a good one.