ASL: American Sign Language

American Sign Language and Signing Exact English are to different forms of signing. ASL stands for American Sign Language and SEE stands for signed exact English. Some history on ASL first began, it was not known as American Sign Language, but as the Old French Sign Language during the mid-18th century by deaf French. The largest contributor to the spreading of sign language was Abbe de l’Epee from Paris. He was amazed after seeing these young to girls signing to each other and thought of it as a great way of educating the deaf. And by 1771 he had established the first free educational institution for the deaf in France. But he did not keep the sign type of sign language but changed it into more like a spoken language. Instead of signing the

By 1816, Gallaudet decided to go to Europe where he would learn about deaf schools that was made by graduates of Abbe de l’Epee institution. While in Europe Thomas meets Laurent Clerc a recent graduate of the institution. Laurent had taught Gallaudet about the deaf education and sign languages and was convinced by Thomas to come to America to help set up America’s first school for the deaf. With the help of bout Thomas and Laurent, they transformed the Old French Sign Language into one that American would understand. But this American Sign Language was like the system of Abbe de l’Epee’s with grammar and signs to represent each word, this is known today as Old Signed English. But by 1817, Thomas founded the nation’s first school for the deaf, which was called the American Asylum and was located in Hartford, Connecticut. Laurent was the first sign teacher in America. But they both soon realized that the student were not only using there form of Old Signed English but used a shortened and more nature sign which was later named, what we know today as American Sign language. While ASL has a long history SEE has a much shorter one because of it not being a language like

This was used mostly by schools and parents that found it useful in order to be able to instruct deaf children by English. SEE also has what are called sign markers to indicate the use of prefixes and suffixes. There is also the difference that SEE only has one sign for each other, even if they mean different things. As for ASL there could be about three different signs/ hand gestures for one English word.

American Sign Language and Signing Exact English are to different forms of signing. ASL stands for American Sign Language and SEE stands for signed exact English. Some history on ASL first began, during the mid-18th century and was made by deaf French. It was not known as American Sign Language at that time but as the Old French Sign Language. This system called the Old French Sign Language was created in France at is most important person to the spreading of