should sign language be taught in schools as a foreign language option?

I am actually pretty angry that sign language isn’t taught in schools. We learned the sign language alphabet when I was in 3rd grade but that’s all. It was not offered in high school or in my college. Now I have a health care profession and we come across deaf people all the time and […]

What are some directions to head with the prompt: “Personal narrative on language in our multicultural world”?

Have already come up with two possible concepts: – Language Barriers – Difficulty Within International Communication – Creates Universal “Symbolic Language” To Accommodate – Gives Other Desire To Learn Language – Provide people a sense of “me” – Varieties Within A Language – Spanish Types – English (USA, England, Sign Language, Braille) .

Yemen language schools near-empty after militant student

Yemen language schools near-empty after militant student SANAA (Reuters) – When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab enrolled in an Arabic course in Yemen last year, few who met him could have guessed what this withdrawn young man was really up to, nor the devastating impact he would leave behind. Read more on Reuters via Yahoo!7 News .

Is Learning the Manual Alphabet and or ASL sign language for this reason morally wrong?

I learned the manual alphabet so that my friends and I could talk in class without the teacher knowing… and also just for fun. Are we seeming to sorta make fun of the deaf? (I don’t, I actually respect them) And is the manual alphabet considered it’s own language, or is it just a small […]