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American Sign Language

American Sign Language. Kacie Huber. ASL is NOT English. You can change the meaning of a word with your posture or facial expression. Thomas Gallaudet brought Laurent Clerc back to America from France and founded the first American school for the deaf

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American Sign Language

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  1. American Sign Language Kacie Huber

  2. ASL is NOT English • You can change the meaning of a word with your posture or facial expression. • Thomas Gallaudet brought Laurent Clerc back to America from France and founded the first American school for the deaf • ASL is heavily influenced by French sign language and with sign in America • British sign language is very different than ASL • Sign language is its own language because it has its own grammer, morphology, and syntax and vthe man that proved that is William Stokoe

  3. Deaf Culture: ASL Facts • NOT ALL DEAF PEOPLE USE SIGN LANGUAGE!!! • 93% of deaf children are born into a hearing family and only 7% are born into a deaf family • ASL is the fourth most used language in the U.S. • Not all deaf people can read lips and if they are trying to lip read, they are guessing what you are saying over 50% of the time • This might lead to miscommunication

  4. My Facts • Stokoe wanted to show everyone that sign language was an official language so he made a descriptive system for the language to be demonstrated so that the general public could see understand. • There was biography done on William Stokoe it was by Jane Maher, Seeing Language in Sign: The Work of William C. Stokoe, published by Gallaudet University Press in 1996. • Trying to read lips is very hard because many words look the same. “For example, "p(ail), b(ail), and m(ail)" look the same.”

  5. Websites • http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/stokoe.html • http://deafness.about.com/cs/communication/a/lipreading.htm

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