Does ASL Teach English?
Thursday June 17, 2004
A deaf forum member posed a challenging question for discussion: How important is sign communication in ASL versus the need to learn English?
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Well,that is a good question, I am a hearing mom of a deaf 10 yr old daughter.She is using ASL,which we love but, her reading is at maybe a 1st grade level.But they expect her to be doing better. How can she be??I do sign, i can have nice conver. with deaf adults but its not good enough to teach my daughter how to bridge the 2 languages.They have books in braille,other spoken languages why cant we have books in ASL,pictures with signs.or at least in asl words, word order?? hummm i wish i had and answer,maybe someday we will!! if anyone would like to give some advice i sure would appreciate that my email is jokrzgin@aol.com!!!