American Sign Language is fundamentally the same thing as the Deaf Community. There would and could not be one without the other. American Sign Language provides the canvas for which every meaningful “deaf” experience is painted. Its a social calling card and way to decided who to mate with. ASL groups clubs and schools can be a person’s only social out put if they are born to a hearing family who has refused to learn with them. In Chapter 11 of Deaf World it describes a deaf student and their first time seeing the grand Gallaudet College. This an experience they wouldn't have had the opportunity to have if there wasn't an incredible deaf university for them to attend built on the back of the incredible American Sing Language. The figure
