The Importance Of Sign Language

Sign language has been around for awhile; however, many people do not use it as often as any other language in the world. Sign language is mostly used in the deaf community. Sign language is not a modern language used on an everyday basis by households. One problem with sign language is that it has different parts of/in it. For example, each country has its own type of sign language that its natives speak. So, what one signer signs another signer may not be able to understand. There are 38 sign languages with different structural aspects, history, and culture (Jepson, 2015). Sign language has made an infinite impact on the deaf community, whereas the rest of the community (foreign languages) has not picked up on any of the signs or gestures.

People believe that sign language can be used to cheat because not everyone knows the signs being used, therefore teachers would not necessarily know what information is being passed from student to student. If someone was signing under the desk or table during a test, there is a possibility that the teacher would never even know what was going on in his/her classroom. So, if sign language was to be used in classrooms the class statistics or reports would not likely be able to be trusted. Therefore, the school’s reputation would be at stake seeing as none of the class numbers were good to be

For example, if someone was walking down the street with someone that was deaf, they were signing to each other, any average person that does not know the language could take it wrong and assume things. A gang member’s first response to someone throwing up gang signs, is that their disrespecting them. Therefore, gang members do what they feel is acceptable to the other party. The population is already going through enough with the crime rates going up, so putting gang and sign language signs together will only complicate things any further. Sign language may be mistaken for different inappropriate signals in different languages