American Sign Language
I have had limited prior knowledge of the deaf community or deaf education. I have used limited sign language to communicate in the A. Sophie Rogers Lab School. We use a vocabulary of about 25 words with the infants and toddlers and around 50 words. It is an effective way to communicate with pretalking children. It was very interesting to be able to communicate with them and it pushed me to want to learn more ASL so I could communicate with more people. I work customer service, and being able to sign would help me interact with more customers. I had a desire to take this course in my second year but it was not offered. Now I am getting ready to graduate and will not have time to advance my knowledge beyond 101.
Before reading this article I felt that if I could learn the language, and communicate effectively that I could be part of the social group, but no matter how much I know I could never fully understand or be part of the group. Another thing I was surprised about learning was that ASL is used for communication more than teaching. From this article I learned that being deaf is not just a physical difference, it is a society and way of life. Since the common language has been taught the deaf community has been formed. I assumed that children learned to sign in school as the best way to be taught, and then learned things like lip reading, and gestures to be able to interact with the hearing community. I would recommend this article to anyone that has not had any experience with the deaf community. It is a language based on many different base languages mainly French. Being deaf is the main way to become an integral member of the deaf community, but there are also other elements such as political, social, and audio logical avenues. ASL began in America in the early 1800's and continues is used throughout America and Canada. this article I discovered that ASL is not a universal and it is not stationary. I would recommend that anyone going into education read this article to get a better understanding of ASL and the importance of being in a deaf community for young deaf children. It is important for many deaf people to associate with and be around other deaf people to communicate fully with. I cannot understand why anyone today would still be teaching lip reading and speech (perhaps that is from my education experience), when it is proved that this is a terrible way for children to learn.
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