Why ASL?

[@ASLMasterTutor]

As a Deaf person myself from a non-signing hearing family & oralism - I missed out so much and then at MSSD I finally learned sign language. It was until after I went to Gally I finally learned ASL - I devoted my life in mastering ASL so I could teach it to others. It's true for me that without early exposure, I became a college drop out as I had to constantly catch up and still am. Thanks for sharing your video! This needs to be told!

[@justj1915]

I have a hearing child diagnosed autistic and he has been nonverbal. ASL opened the doors to babbling now. He is babbling and starting to make more sounds. He was silent prior and now knows 43 signs! I am so grateful for ASL and all of our deaf mentors. I can communicate with my son and hopeful for his future now. It is amazing to learn what he likes and doesn't like and what he wants/ don't want and what he is thinking. We had ABA and speech but he made no progress until our whole family made a commitment into ASL and hired a deaf ASL teaching to come and teach our whole family ASL. Now we have made ABA adapt ASL and hired a speech therapist who uses signs in therapy. More progress made now after months and months of no progress with early intervention. More therapists in all areas need to be fluent in ASL.

[@melissaforkner4835]

Add closed captioned or audio.. I think it is so great for hearing parent who has deaf child. I work as deaf mentor program. Would like to add this to education to parent.

[@HarperPrato]

transcript for those who might need it What is the best for a deaf baby? The baby cannot hear or speak and will become a social reject?! To have your baby grow and thrive provide a natural language Provide your deaf babe with ASL during its critical period critical period is an ideal window of time to acquire on a language before it becomes difficult later in life typically from birth to 4 years old Early exposure to asl allows easy access to information like other subjects languages speaking and expressing No early exposure to asl will most likely have some life long effects on your deaf baby The two groups were tested and compared in their academic performance including reading tasks writing tasks tests of english syntax vocabulary early exposed signers showed superior academic performance Early exposed signers late exposed signers Maybe it seems like a good idea to speak with your deaf child first and provide asl later in its life bad idea Late exposed signers miss out on important and beneficial parts of first year of language development Motherese also known as baby talk it is one of the beneficial parts of a baby's language development Babbling the first step of language acquisition and one of the most important steps Exposed to asl at an older age your child would not have the same chance to experience motherese or babbling like other babies falling behind in language development Late exposure to asl would not only affect your baby's academic and linguistic development but also its cognitive developments Studies that compare early exposed signers and late exposed signers cognition showed that late exposed signers lack in some cognitive areas Your deaf baby without language during his her critical period is highly likely to result in long term damage to his her linguistic and cognitive development

[@MikeTysonTheCat]

I wish I had the means to run this on national t.v. during the superbowl!

[@alexisperren3287]

ok, i am not def ,but i have a friend that is def . when i was 10 that i will lose a lot of my hearing by then i had a good chance of learning asl ,because a girl in my grade was def. I learned so i cold talk to her on my own with out a translators help. now that I am in high school and i learned the def are much more cool most of my friends that are hearing why.I care so much. and i tell them my story i tell them the story of my learning problem and what helped me the most get through it.

[@VitaElle]

I really like this vlog. I shared this in Facebook. Hope this message will keep spreading.

[@alexisperren3287]

oh and since i came to this school there have been more hearing kids kinda like i am reaching out and taking the chance to learn when i go completely def i will be happy i learned at a young age and helped kids learn at a young age

[@stargaze17]

Yay! Awesomeness. Glad you put that information out there. =)

[@aslized]

One day! :)

[@maize033]

💙💙💙

[@katyanaduleon-west8182]

i know..i am 47 and now having to learn sign...so difficult esp byself..no one here signs...and trying to lean bymyself last yr..200 signs in a yr...terrible progress.

[@ettinakitten5047]

ASL isn't the only option. Cued speech has been shown to result in equally good language development, and is easier for hearing parents to learn. ASL is awesome, but when a parent's ASL isn't progressing fast enough, the child suffers. So I think more hearing parents should learn cued speech as well as ASL so the kid isn't slowed down by the parent's learning curve.

[@annadinagarcia8434]

I disagree cued speech is not a language. ASL itself is a language! ASL children can develop communication. Parents can learn ASL by taking classes and go to Deaf events