CHAPTER 8:

               How do deaf people learn sign language?

Communication is universal. Deaf people learn how to sign from each other until recently ASL is never formally taught to deaf children. This leaves deaf children plunged into an ASL environment in playgrounds, cafeteria, and the dorms.
In this chapter, signing was forbidden in the classroom. Which is crazy to me because deaf people have no other way of communicating with others without their language. Deaf children use ASL everywhere outside of the classroom and new kids pick up on it quickly and within a few months become fluent and skillful signers.

FUN FACT

Most deaf parents have hearing children, the 10% who have deaf children often send them to the residential schools. Some dead persons learn ASL later in life. The easiest way to become proficient in ASL is by living with a deaf person. It takes time and the right experience to become fluent.