Hearing loss support - Sign language (was: Wary of Taking Spanish or French? Raise Your Hands)

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Sign language (was: Wary of Taking Spanish or French? Raise Your Hands)

Jacques Guy

2005-01-19, 7:11 pm

sufaud wrote:

> I wonder about children who have learned to sign but have not otherwise
> learned language at a young age: for them learning to read is not just
> learning to read, but learning English (or another language) from scratch.

I wonder how they manage it at all. ASL and say, English,
are already as different as one can imagine. Now ASL
and _written_ English (or, for that matter, _written_
Chinese, or Russian, or...) I don't know how to put it...
it must be like trying to learn hieroglyphic Hittite
without any knowledge of Hittite.