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).

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