Why ASL Should Be Provided To Students

American Sign Language(ASL) is Always on my Hands: ASL Should be Provided to Students Schools throughout the United States teach second languages like Spanish or French to students but not ASL.This is a problem. Over 5% of the world population(466 million people) have a hearing disability, and throughout time, it is estimated to grow an alarming amount. By not teaching students how to exchange information with this large population, they are denied the ability to properly communicate one of the many purposes schools have to provide to students. This ends up creating more problems such as discrimination and isolation between the hearing and the Deaf. ASLexpands academic growth, increase IQ in children taught from a young age, keeps students

According to Educational Playcare, School Health, and Signing Time, ASL being taught to children from young ages can enhance their growth tremendously as well as provide them with an amazing skill. One of the many benefits ASL provides to the young is that it can help behavioral related problems by making the child feel more welcome to share their feelings in a mature manner. For example, signing or talking over throwing tantrums or getting violent. ASL has also proven to help relationships between students and teachers as well as help the children grow academically. A study by Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, Marilyn Daniels, in the use of sign language helping to enhance young hearing students literacy skills proves that the children who had sign language in their classroom versus other classes that don’t use sign language. It was found that the children that had sign in their learning environment had higher scores in letter identification, word recognition, and an easier time grasping concepts. Another Study by Laura Felzer provided information on how singing improved a class of kindergarteners learning English as a second language read at or above grade level through the practice of sign. It also highest IQ by up to 12, keeps students engaged in the classroom by providing a hands on activity, and enables the young to

Yes, sign language is in no way easy to learn and may even be fairly complicated at the beginning, but it will improve and once it clicks. In the first few semesters of learning ASL, a little over six hundred vocabulary words will be taught, much like other languages, in a short amount of time. According to Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, the part of the brain ASL is worked in is the same place in the brain we work on cohesiveness and rhythm. In other words, where everything connects. ASL is worked there more than other languages and that sets ASL up as easier and faster to grasp then Spanish or French. In Spanish or French, entirely new concepts are having to be worked in another part of the brain until it is broken down and goes to the part ASL is worked in. Therefore, ASL is easier to