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Sign Language

Perry Harlow
Mrs. Payne
English IV 2A
14 December 2011

I Can't Hear You

Many people do not think about sign language until they encounter a deaf or hard of hearing person or they see another person signing. It is common for a person to be born deaf. According to the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one out of ten children who are born deaf is born to parents who hear. The common person knows the history of the beginning of the Unites States of America, but do they know much about where sign language originated?
Sign language has been in existence since the fourteenth century. Although sign language education has been around for six ...

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& Flodin) According to the Brief History of ASL in 1815, Thomas Gallaudet went to Europe with the hopes of learning a method of teaching deaf children. Gallaudet was a minister who became interested in helping his neighbor's young daughter. (Butterworth and Flodin) After several months, Gallaudet returned to the United States with Laurent Clerc, a deaf language instructor from the Paris school. (Butterworth and Flodin)
In 1817, Clerc and Gallaudet founded the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons in West Hartford, Connecticut. (Brief History of ASL) This school is now known as the American School of the Deaf. Clerc was America's first deaf teacher of the deaf, and is responsible for bringing Old French Sign Language to America. (Brief History of ASL) According to the Brief History of ASL, sixty percent of American Sign Language comes from Old French Sign Language. By 1863, a total of twenty-two schools had been established ...

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