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It is true and something more people should understand that ASL is not a signed version English, but most ASL speakers are pretty much bilingual. They are taugh
by norgie 4y ago
It is true and something more people should understand that ASL is not a signed version English, but most ASL speakers are pretty much bilingual. They are taught to read English, and most places also encourage learning to speak English, generally with speech-language pathologists, though some in the community are understandably reluctant.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoRight, which is why I'm pointing out the second language nature of it since a lot of people are bilingual and I think have an intuitive grasp of the difference in ease between captions in your native language and captions in your second.
- blamestross 4y ago"most" is an interesting choice of word here. It's true. 70% of deaf children learn to read English [1]. But I don't think that's enough to consider it a safe assumption. [1] https://www.handsandvoices.org/articles/education/advocacy/weare_hv.html https://www.handsandvoices.org/articles/education/advocacy/w...
- kzrdude 4y agoWhy isn't it more than 70%? I'm assuming this is in an english language majority language, so everyone that can should want to be able to read english.
- blamestross 4y agoBecause learning written English isn't easy when the sounds it represents are not part of your sensory experience. It's more like learning Egyptian hieroglyphics. Plus many parents either can't or won't invest the effort/money to make it happen. Lots of parents never even learn ASL to communicate with their own kids. Met a mother in a beginner ASL class finally deciding to learn enough to communicate with her 20 year old daughter (Who was born deaf and illiterate FTR). It broke my heart when I met the daughter and found out she basically had no exposure to other signers too. Deaf all her life and she didn't have a name-sign. There's "cognitive impairment" and then there's "nobody bothered to communicate enough for a kid to build communication skills."
- kzrdude 4y agoThat is massively sad. You'd think that the school system would put her in contact with others, but schools can fix everything that parents lack.
- metal_am 4y agoOral vs. sign is a big ongoing debate in the deaf education world. Different schools have different schools of thought.