ASL-English Bilingualism and Education
These posts may be of an interest for parents who raise a bilingual child in ASL (or any other signed language) and English (or another written and/or spoken language) as well as for ASL specialists, educators, and professionals.
Examples of ASL-English bilingual families are Deaf of Deaf Family (a bilingual family in a native-signlan environment), CODA (usually a bilingual hearing child of Deaf parents in a native-signlan environment), a deaf child with hearing parents, and a new form of family unit: hearing children of hearing family in which the children attend a bilingual ASL school (ASL immersion school).
Sign language topics
- Babbling found in sign language in babies
- Brain: language is not central to speech
- Clearing up common myths about bilingualism
- Critical time for learning all languages
- Deaf children: early exposure to language
- Ideal education for deaf children
- Language acquisition for deaf children
- Language development milestones: 0-12 months old
- Language development milestones: 12-24 months old
- Parentese: baby-directed talk in sign language
- Phonological acquisition from babbling to ASL words
- The Critical Need for Providing Early Visual Language to the Deaf Child

