Why I said ASL failed and what I meant by the statement. Carrying the 7th generation "deaf family" label I witnessed and observed at least four generations of deaf people and their so-called communities. I can safely vouch the important fact that ASL lacks structural values necessary for our own defense and how it seem to disintegrate deaf people's vocabulary and grammatical skills. The video has been subtitled for hearing people so that they will begin to understand the underlying issues within our deaf community.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Why I said ASL Failed and Disintegrates
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Good points. Very interesting. Thanks.
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Wow. Never expected Deaf to speak out about failure of ASL. But I have to agree, ASL is a failure.
ReplyDeleteI am a Deafened adult who learned signs, first SEE then ASL, ASL has helped me understand everything at Interpreted meetings. Yet, I too see that the majority of Deaf are 2nd class or even 3rd class citizens because of their lack of proper english grammar and spelling.
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ReplyDeleteHave not you thought about why there is ASL lesson in deaf schools? It has not been the same problem in Sweden despite the fact that we are using mostly sign language and use the finger-only letters for names or what is the new word. Over 50% of young deaf people have a better command of written Swedish. It is important to sign language-lesson in schools. If not, sign language lesson there, it gets worse in English. It is a minority language law adopted today. Do sign language develops, the same amount in Swedish. I think what you're talking about the minority who can not distinguish between minority and majority. It's only majority who can form richness of language, that is what it meant by the majority of deaf people, it's college or university, so sign language is rich. Although deaf people have their own society as a minority.
ReplyDeleteLiene, were you not paying attention on what I said in the video? I clearly spelled the essence of balancing our usages. The point here is, excessive usage of ASL disintegrates deaf people's vocabulary and grammatical skills. Your comment above does not even address the matter. Or is it a case of you misunderstanding my ASL?
ReplyDeleteYou explain about it. I do use fingerspelling a lot because to prevent misunderstand the communcation. But one thing who the hearing learning sign language and ask me they prefer me to asl a lot instead use fingerspelling. I still stubborn to use fingerspelling because I could use written communcation with the hearing people. I did ask some hearing professors that I would like to have interpreter. Most of them encourage me to use written communcation because they want to see me able to spell right the words for them. I really disappoint that many deaf don't think twice to feel proud that they could write/type the right words. I do support ASL with fingerspelling a lot. I dont support ASL without fingerspelling. Let you know that my parents were deaf too. I still encourage my deaf son to use fingerspelling. Please be strong for urself. Thank you for speak up.
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