s only "93 percent of deaf
             schoolchildren can lip-read only one in ten everyday sentences in English." Later in 1880
             an international meeting of educators of the deaf were absent the use of sign language in
             schools was put to an end. This was largely due to Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of
             the telephone), which came as a surprise considering he was married to a woman who
             denied her own deafness. Almost one hundred years later, a new federal law mandated
             "mainstreaming." This law was beneficial to some parents because it allowed them to
             teach their deaf children at home, instead of sending off to schools, where they didn't
             know what to do with them. I feel bad for these children because they're isolated and they
             feel as if there are none other like them. In reality there are many deaf out there that need
             to be given the opportunity to be able to communicate through sign language.
             For a long time American Sign Language has been looked at as a form of pidgin
             English. Until recently, when the true meaning of ASL was discovered by Bi
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