| The best way to learn sign language, as is the best | | | | Commands can appear in eight spoken languages as |
| way to learn anything, is to take a systematic | | | | preferred (Danish, English, French, Italian, Norwegian, |
| approach to your education. By doing such you will be | | | | Portuguese, Spanish, or Swedish) and fingerspelling |
| able to take the steps that are necessary in order to | | | | keyboards and sign language dictionary files are |
| learn sign language in the shortest time possible. While | | | | available for 14 countries. This makes it possible to |
| it is easy to learn sign language, you will find some | | | | type a word and have a sign appear, which makes |
| specific nuances that are country or race specific. For | | | | the program usable by those not highly skilled in the |
| example, what holds good in British sign language could | | | | signed language. |
| differ from the sign language used in another country. | | | | In the United States, many African Americans in the |
| Hearing parents who choose to learn sign language | | | | South who communicate through sign language use a |
| often learn it along with their child. Nine out of every | | | | variant of standard ASL, just as many African |
| ten children who are born deaf are born to parents | | | | Americans might communicate through their own |
| who hear. | | | | vernacular English in speech. In Switzerland, there are |
| The Baby Sign program and philosphy began with | | | | five geographic dialects of Swiss German Sign |
| made-up gestures that were not/are not related to | | | | Language with slight variations that derive from |
| ASL, which by the way is the third most commonly | | | | regional schools for the deaf. American Sign Language |
| used language in our country after English and Spanish. | | | | has unique syntax and grammar, entirely different from |
| With the last printing of the Baby Signs book, some | | | | the English language; however, it may be easier for a |
| ASL signs were added to their system of made-up | | | | person with autism to learn because of its visually |
| gestures but as someone who has signed for nearly | | | | compact structure . Fewer signs are necessary when |
| twenty years, some of the signs labeled as ASL are | | | | signing in ASL versus when using Signed English or |
| not ASL signs I have ever seen. They were given a | | | | spoken English. The presence of an ASL translation of |
| copy of the CD-Rom with directions to review and | | | | the Mass would be entirely irrelevant to the status of |
| write down each question in English (conceptually). | | | | the English translation. |