Each person should know at least one signed language
By
Vynce
on March 06, 2007
It has been demonstrated that, in addition to language acquisition being possible younger (when mouths are perhaps not yet nimble enough to annunciate), signed languages reside in a different portion of the brain, meaning that often brain damage patients -- stroke, trauma, etc. -- keep a signed language despite losing a spoken one.
(by "signed language", I do not intend a fingerspelling of another spoken language, or a small set of gestures such as baseball signs, but a whole language.)
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Although I don't.
Yes, the advantage of not losing language entirely is huge. But you should have a signed language and a spoken language in an ideal world, because the idea is to not put all your eggs in one basket.
Plus, I think if ASL were taught to basically everyone, it would make being deaf such an incredibly much smaller issue. It would simply eliminate a whole host of problems.
of course, it'd also cause merry havoc with Deaf culture. But I still think it'd be best in the long run.