The Language of the Deaf

The Language of the DeafNothing is more central to the culture and dearer to the hearts of Deaf people than their language. In the past few decades, linguists have uncovered a wealth of information about ASL and other signed languages. That knowledge is just beginning to be incorporated into educational practices. Perhaps the most astonishing and fundamental discovery of that research is that ASL is a language--a complete natural language, quite independent from English. These recent findings have done much to substantiate ASL as a language, it has not always been recognized as such. Read on to discover why.

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