Trends Of Sign Language (ASL)

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(Essay on the trend of Sign Language) “Over 24,000 children are born every year in the U.S. with some level of hearing loss.” (American, 2015). This statistic supplied by the NCRA is rather interesting. I have begun to notice throughout my life that sign language has become more common and is becoming a huge trend. Due to this statistic I can fully understand why ASL is becoming frequent in today's society. However, sign Language in Wyoming has never been proposed to the state legislature. Some community colleges offer ASL for credit, but ASL does not fulfill the foreign language requirement. Due to the fact that many children are born with some type of hearing loss ASL has become a huge part of everyday life for multiple people. You …show more content…

You may be watching a show and you look over to one of the sides and see that someone is translating for the hard of hearing. However, if you would have been watching that show 10 years later I guarantee that you wouldn't have seen that. Death culture is a real thing and they announce that they are a culture out in public to this day. Many people knew of them as people who had hearing loss, but never thought of them as a culture. “The idea that Deaf people had a culture of their own was first written in the Dictionary of American Sign Language by William Stokoe, Carl Croneberg, and Dorothy Casterline.”(Deaf, 2015). The American Sign Language is known as an actual language and because of that fact deaf people are considered their own culture. This culture is starting to grow throughout the public and more and more people want to gain more knowledge on sign …show more content…

Earlier on it was hard to find a public school that was able to aid towards kids with hearing loss, but today there are many programs that are offered throughout the public school systems that can aid to an ASL student. “The American Sign Language (ASL) Program curriculum is an intensive program of study dedicated to preparing individuals to interact in a positive and supportive manner with members of the American Deaf Community”(ASL, 2015).Not only do the schools offer programs to assist the deaf, but offer classes so the hearing can understand the life of a hard of hearing person. Students learn ASL and are able to communicate with the deaf community after a period of

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