What if you were stranded on an island where you can only read lips and you can’t hear what people are saying? Luckily there is the American Sign Language (ASL) which will become beneficial to you as you try to navigate your way back home. American Sign Language is one of the biggest and most used languages in the deaf community. However, this hasn’t always been the case in the 1700’s many deaf people had little no value in society. American Sign Language is essential to the deaf community. How did this great language come about? With learning ASL, you will truly understand the language by connecting yourself with the deaf community and learning some of the challenges and benefits of sign language. In the mid to late 1700s, French Sign language
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In the article ENHANCING EARLY COMMUNICATION THROUGH INFANT SIGN TRAINING by Rachel Thompson they examined 4 infants that either lacked some communication skills and some mental skills were taught skin language. The goal of this study was to examine the infants to see teaching the infants had any benefits to it. After the study was conducted they found that even though a lot of people may think that the infants learning sign language would delay them from speaking but studies have shown it’s the exact opposite. Another benefit would be that with exposing the disabled kids to sign language at such a young age they could retain in much easier. Based on the studies infants exposed sign language from 6 to 11 months had an 16% chance to retain the information than infants 12 to 16 months. These studies have shown that sign language provides our society with a lot of benefits. But to truly learn about sign language you must see how to deaf community lives day in a day out include some of the struggles that the face and believe me there are plenty of …show more content…
In the article On-Demand American Sign Language Interpreting Services: Social Policy Development in the Yukon it talks about the lack of sign language interpreters. The article discusses how in most public place like hospitals, grocery stores and places such they lack interpreters and that many times they must call on-demand interpreters that are super expensive and unaffordable. Even in some serious cases where interpreters are unavailable many deaf people are left clueless and scared. Even when interpreters are available there can be conflicts with the quality of the interpreters this could lead to bad conflicts. The deaf community has been experiencing this problem for a many of years. People do not know how crucial interpreters are especially in a time of need think about having a serious situation happen to you how would you feel if you were unable to communicate with people. Well that’s how most deaf people fell when they are left alone without an
In the article ENHANCING EARLY COMMUNICATION THROUGH INFANT SIGN TRAINING by Rachel Thompson they examined 4 infants that either lacked some communication skills and some mental skills were taught skin language. The goal of this study was to examine the infants to see teaching the infants had any benefits to it. After the study was conducted they found that even though a lot of people may think that the infants learning sign language would delay them from speaking but studies have shown it’s the exact opposite. Another benefit would be that with exposing the disabled kids to sign language at such a young age they could retain in much easier. Based on the studies infants exposed sign language from 6 to 11 months had an 16% chance to retain the information than infants 12 to 16 months. These studies have shown that sign language provides our society with a lot of benefits. But to truly learn about sign language you must see how to deaf community lives day in a day out include some of the struggles that the face and believe me there are plenty of …show more content…
In the article On-Demand American Sign Language Interpreting Services: Social Policy Development in the Yukon it talks about the lack of sign language interpreters. The article discusses how in most public place like hospitals, grocery stores and places such they lack interpreters and that many times they must call on-demand interpreters that are super expensive and unaffordable. Even in some serious cases where interpreters are unavailable many deaf people are left clueless and scared. Even when interpreters are available there can be conflicts with the quality of the interpreters this could lead to bad conflicts. The deaf community has been experiencing this problem for a many of years. People do not know how crucial interpreters are especially in a time of need think about having a serious situation happen to you how would you feel if you were unable to communicate with people. Well that’s how most deaf people fell when they are left alone without an