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  2. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language [5] that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features . [ 6 ]

  3. History of deaf education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1800s, schools began to use the oral method, which only allowed the use of speech, as opposed to the manual method previously in place. Students caught using sign language in oral programs were often punished. The oral method was used for many years until sign language instruction gradually began to come back into deaf education.

  4. List of most commonly learned second languages in the United ...

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    2 List of top five most commonly learned languages by year. ... about 49 million) who take foreign-language classes. [1] ... American Sign Language: 107,899 9.1% 4 ...

  5. How Topeka woman shares importance of language access through ...

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    Sara Hale has been increasing communication access in Topeka by offering free American Sign Language (ASL) classes at Faith Lutheran Church at 1716 S.W. Gage Boulevard for more than 15 years.

  6. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    The grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has rules just like any other sign language or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe in the 1960s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This sign language consists of parameters that determine many other grammar rules.

  7. National Technical Institute for the Deaf - Wikipedia

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    The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is the first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. [1] As one of nine colleges within the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York, NTID provides academic programs, access, ASL in-class interpreters and support services—including on-site audiological, speech ...

  8. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    Stokoe notation, devised by Dr. William Stokoe for his 1965 Dictionary of American Sign Language, [90] is an abstract phonemic notation system. Designed specifically for representing the use of the hands, it has no way of expressing facial expression or other non-manual features of sign languages.

  9. Deaf culture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A U.S. state regulation from the Colorado Department of Human Services defines Deaf (uppercase) as "A group of people, with varying hearing acuity, whose primary mode of communication is a visual language (predominantly American Sign Language (ASL) in the United States) and have a shared heritage and culture," and has a separate definition for ...