Asl in schools

aweet_princess198925 said:
But it says 20 million of the hearing-impaired people they only counted 550,000 people as being death so they did not include in that 1/4 of people being heard of hearing people so we could not say that there is only 550,000 deaf people in the US. Meaning it can be 2 million people that are hard of hearing and 550,000 people that are deaf but if you add all that together maybe all of those people is a combination need to know ASL.
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The majority of hard of hearing people are the elderly. Any amount of hearing loss, even as little as 5 db would be counted in those stats. They are not going to learn ASL for that.
 
If you look at the military stats it's mostly people my age in the military that have hearing loss and I'm on 25. Actually they say everyone in the military has a degree of hearing loss and the military is already 10% of of people the US.
 
And a lot of younger people have hearing loss because of music and parties and clubs and children being children being reckless and careless or just playing with their friends and getting hurt in a way they can loss some or total hearing. There was a girl that was all over YouTube was trying to fight another girl and she got hit in the head with a shovel and she lost total hearing in her right ear.
 
I have the same topic on Facebook on the American sign language page and there is quite a lot of people who do agree that it should be in schools as a option of a foreign language elective just like any other language.
 
I take ASL in highschool and I'm currently in my second year. I think it's becoming offered in more and more schools which is pretty awesome if you ask me. I'm hearing but I greatly enjoy learning the language.
 
hazelnut898900 said:
I take ASL in highschool and I'm currently in my second year. I think it's becoming offered in more and more schools which is pretty awesome if you ask me. I'm hearing but I greatly enjoy learning the language.
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There are a lot of people who want to learn and want to be Asl translates and you don't need a degree to be one just a certificate and some people get it right out of high school from what I have read. But right now county wide not many schools have it. I wish I had it when I was in school and I been to 18 schools and never had it.
 
My school got and everyone thought to was useless I got it because I know how it feels to feel left out but then I realized that deaf communities are stronger than anyone that can speak
 
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