American Sign Language
...s can only do jobs requiring minimal communication (www.gupress.gallaudet.edu).” There are many different perceptions of ASL; from a pathological point of view deaf people are a “group of people whose hearing loss interferes with the normal reception of speech” (www.signmedia.com). ASL is not poor or bad English it is unique from the spoken language. In the 1960’s much of knowledge about the acquisition and development of language was based on the systematic investigation and study of spoken languages such as English, French, and German. Investigators realized that systematic study of sign language acquisition provided a way to answer important question about human language abilities. Another investigation was based on whether human brain processed sign languages in much the same way as spoken languages (www.ASL.com). When researchers investigated this topic and studied the development of young children, they often focused on the children’s hand preference as they sign as an indicator of cerebral hemispheric involvement in sign production. Another major question is how does American sign language relates or differ from English language or spoken language. It not only differs from English in its syntax and vocabulary, it visuals form is so strange to hearing people that for decades it was not always recognized as good language. ASL is physically a structure to accommodate th...