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August 13, 1861: George Veditz (1861-1937), a renowned teacher and the 7th president of the USA's National Association of the Deaf (NAD), was born in Baltimore, U.S. The Deaf community across the U.S. celebrated Veditz's 150th birthday on August 13, 2011 in honor of his human right advocacy and bravery and for his contributions to preservation of sign language on film in 1913.
August 19, 1931: Dorothy Miles, an ASL/BSL poet and activist in the Deaf community, was born.
August 10-17, 1924: Comite International des Sports des Sourds (CISS) was founded in Paris during the first World Games for the Deaf (now known as Deaflympics) from 10 to 17 August in Paris, France.
August 17, 1999: The Royal Thai Government acknowledged Thai Sign Language as "the national language of deaf people in Thailand".
13 August: George Veditz Day
George Veditz (1861-1937), a renowned teacher and the 7th president of the USA's National Association of the Deaf (NAD), is Deaf community's one of the most honored figures in history.
The Deaf community across the U.S. celebrated Veditz's 150th birthday on August 13, 2011 in honor of his human right advocacy and bravery and for his contributions to preservation of sign language on film in 1913.
8 August: International Cat Day
Happy Cat Day for cat lovers.
A four-year-old ASL native speaker signed ILY (I Love You) to the cat. And the cat's response? :)
How do you sign some common ASL words? thank you, I love you, please, hello, baby. Browse thousands of signed words in the ASL dictionary.
Learning ASL as a second language (L2) is fun and popular. Bilingualism is not the only benefit, but also bimodalism is another linguistic advantage for the cognitive and sensorial development. Plus many other benefits.
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Link to A Raven and a Swan.
"In my nearly 40 years of life...I've yet to meet a single deaf person who was traumatized by sign language. Yet, I can't count how many were traumatized by mainstreamed and oral education."
-- Jeanine Gingras
Signing ASL as a first language (L1) is commonly found in Deaf families and codas as well as some deaf children in ASL-speaking bilingual schools. Studies from neuroscience to linguistics show that language acquisition, developmental milestones, and linguistic activities in the brain are similiar in signed language as found in spoken language.
Should you learn sign language for your deaf child?
Raising a bilingual-bimodal child: Don't insist on English.