Vision

We want to bring the richness of a visual language to all children.

ASL Inside

Missy Keast founded ASL Inside to produce and distribute engaging ASL materials that make learning fun and easy. ASL Inside has already produced 22 DVD products in 6 years and is currently producing additional children's stories. ASL Inside plans to release iPad interactive books before the middle of 2012.

Missy Keast, President

Born deaf into a hearing family that learned ASL, Missy's fluency is unmatched and her capabilities as an educator reflect her life-long passion and deep understanding of the language. Recognized internationally for her work with ASL, Missy has been referred to as the "Shakespeare" of sign language. Her clarity and complexity in the use of ASL has framed her work as an ASL educator and she has taught at many colleges, high schools, junior high schools and elementary schools. In addition to teaching, Missy is an accomplished actress and narrator. She has toured with the National Theater of the Deaf (NTD) and is a sought-after storyteller for bookstores, elementary schools, and libraries across the country. She is author of One Day: Our View, which documents the deaf culture with photographs taken around the word during a single 24-hour period in May 1996. The chief architect behind the ASL Inside DVD collections, her passion for ASL is the creative inspiration behind our growing product line.

Missy is also a featured sign columnist for DeafNation.

Randy Hale, Composer

Randy has written for theater, film, television, and the interactive world. He was the main composer for the educational, interactive JumpStart line and was nominated as Best Composer by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences for his work in this field. He is the co-book writer and composer of the musical, Songs From the Tall Grass, which made its world premier at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC and earned him the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts' American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius and Challenge America grants. His work has been featured on NBC, ABC, Disney, Disney Parks Online, and at the Disney/Kodak Pavilion at Disneyland, Epcot, and Euro Disney and composed the music for the critically acclaimed CBS show Thanks. Randy has been a featured speaker at the National Game Developers Conference and received an artist's residency fellowship at the Anderson Center For Interdisciplinary Studies.