NetSignNews Deaf news show in ASL "Talk About It"

[Cougman1978]

it is difficult for the deaf people to learn english because of the grammars are very depend on its sound, not all hearing poeple understand its sound.I know where deaf people missed english. I wish I could help them if they let me to. but deaf people reject english, becaus they believe it is hard. english is not real hard, I am deaf and I study english by myself and I know how to teach them to write correct grammar. I don't have ba degree so I don't have power to teach them.

[Baachoo143]

I dont understand why they were signing a strong english grammar when ome deaf would not understand it.

[stargaze17]

I think that hearing parents of (a) Deaf child(ren) should be required to learn at least Basic ASL for the child's/children's benefit of having a foundation in a language.

[watching656]

Signed English is a bridge between ASL and English. It's like speaking English while signing ASL at the same time. Remember, ASL has different grammar structures and etc from English.

[lkrachal]

Hello! I am an interpreter for mainstreamed deaf children. I would have to agree with you the importance of signing ASL in schools. If this my perfect world I would definitely choose ASL to be the language in all of the schools nation wide and let all of the deaf children learn ASL as thier primary language. The problem with that is the main reason that children go to school is to learn how to read and write. It has been revealed to me these past couple of years is that...

[lkrachal]

if they learn ASL then they have a harder time not only learning how to read but also how to write. Not only that but schools are bound by law to teach state certain things. One of those things is that Deaf Educators (or Educators of the Deaf) are required to teach English Sign Language or S.E.E. I would love to be able to teach/interpret ASL simply because that is what I have been taught, but i can't. My hands are literately tied behind my back when it comes to this issue.

[signer16]

If this is ASL, what is signed English?

[triplesdrama]

?...She signs the sign for English... When she puts her hands together very "proper" looking.

[signer16]

I didn't ask what the sign was for English; I sarcastically asked if this is ASL, then what is signed English? What I meant was that this is very English signing, especially from the man, it doesn't look like ASL, it looks like signed English.

[Bfolks84]

@signer16 Yea they both were signing English the man more so than the woman though.

[dohcrwd]

if i am going to learn ASL, that will be my 4th languages.

[EMBegley]

Toowong State School in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Deaf kids are taught sign-language before English and then they are regularly challenged to compare these two languages.