ognitive motor skills and seeing if she differed at all. The only way in which I saw here
             differing from any other student is she was probably ahead of everyone. I was also
             amazed to see her translator keep up with the professor. The professor talked fast and the
             translator was able to keep up with no problem, and the student looked as if she
             understood everything. One day in lab, the professor had the student teach the class the
             ASL alphabet and about fifteen basic words. I found this to be an interesting learning
             experience from an ASL standpoint, not motor learning. The professor's main objective
             was to look at the results from a motor learning standpoint, so it served for two purposes.
             We also have a friend of the family in San Antonio that is a policeman named Steve.
             Steve has been on the police force for about twenty five years and knows English and
             Spanish. Steve once had to report to a situation that involved a deaf person. Steve said
             he had never felt so helpless, and a week after this incident he enrolled in an ASL class at
             UTSA. Steve now has a good understanding on how to use ASL in case he ever comes
             upon this type of situation again. Hearing Steve's story and being involved directly with a
             classmate who knows ASL, has given me much curiosity on the subject.
             French sign language first came about in the United States on April 15, 1817, in
             Hartford. This is the first time America established a school for the deaf. Eventually the
             French sign language was changed into what we know today as American Sign Language.
             The new style of sign language created much controversy. "Anti-signers argued that ASL
             let the deaf "talk" only to the deaf; they must learn to speak and to lip-read. Pro-signers
             pointed out that , through sign, the deaf learned to read and write English" (Oaks 314). I
             think the anti-signers are being unfair. According to Oak...