ASL (American Sign Language ) most important sign language to be recognized or not?

Question

i am just curious to see people's opinon to support ASL or not .. last week of September about Sign languages rights rally .... hope it works to make goverments of any counties will do something or not ......we have to fight harder than before to all deaf people come on and join us to fight . . by the way hearing people can join in anyway

reply to nothingu: you know nothing about ASL why dont you find out what ASL is about i have nothing against your language or other language ....

Answer 1

I'm not sure ASL is the most important sign language, but certainly sign language needs to be recognized as a language in its own right. Perhaps it needs its name (and possibly some of it signs) changed to "International Sign Language".

Students who learn ASL in school should be able to use it as a language credit, students who are bilingual should be able to test out of taking foreign language classes by being proficient in ASL and English. Students whose first language is ASL should be allowed to use it in school.

Answer 2

Why should it be the most important sign language? Is that just because it is the one you know or because it is the American one? There are many many different sign languages around the world and they are all as important as each other.

Sign language is just as important as spoken language too (which I think is your point) beacuse all language is is a way for a group of people to communicate effectively with each other. It doesn't matter how big the group is.

Answer 3

i think that all sign languages are important be they American sign language,British sign language et al.if a person uses that language as their first language then yes they should have the right to use it as their preferred choice of communicating with the world and its people.Perhaps in the future an international sign language could be adopted to be used alongside the various national variations of the sign language system and then all people would perhaps speak with one tongue.My late mother was deaf/blind and even though we used some of the tactile sign language we found over the years we managed to develop our own way of understanding each other.When my youngest son was born he had a severe speech problem which did not fully correct itself until he was nine years old and even though he had perfect hearing he could not communicate his feelings which left him feeling isolated until we were introduced to MacaTon a simplified form of sign language specially developed for children just like my son,i had to learn it as well because he could say all sorts of things and we would never have had a clue what he was saying! He is now nearly twenty years old and can speak quite well though he does have a few problems now and then.If he wants to talk to his older brother without his mother knowing what is being said he still uses macaton but he does not fool me!!

Answer 4

i fully support ASL
i am a first year interpreting student at RIT
and i most definatly support ASL as being a very very important language, it is an amazing form of communication that even I as a hearing person use on a daily basis

Answer 5

Our family all knows some ASL because my great niece learned it in speech therapy so it was what we all used with her until she started using words.
She used baby sign until she learned ASL but learned words starting at age 4. I haven't seen her sign in the last couple of years but she is 8 now and her speech is nearly understandable, her mom understands her..

Answer 6

The problem with ASL is it is NOT a language! People from one town cannot effectively communicate with those from another community. The "translation" all depends upon context and knowing the person being communicated with. Me, I am against it.
Now, if you use Indian sign language (which an Apache CAN use to communicate with a Lakota), then I am in favor.

Answer 7

nah.

where i live in new zealand, they've just recognized sign language as an official language and you can take it in school.... its the english sign too, not just american.