Asl, pse or see?

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Okay, I just have one question, if you are born deaf what are you most likely to learn, PSE, ASL, OR SEE?

Thanks in advance.
 
It depends on who your parents are, if they are deaf, or if they are hearing what kind of medical advice they are given.

ASL would be the best.
 
It still depends on who your parents are.

If the parents are deaf and were raised with SEE, then they may likely use SEE with their children.

If the parents were raised with ASL, then ASL might be used instead.

There's also an issue of what school those kids go to and what early intervention programs recommend.

I was born hearing, but became deaf around the age of one. My parents never learned to sign until I started attending a deaf Sunday school class at church. (When my parents hosted church parties at their house for the deaf class, they felt compelled to learn some sign language.) When they changed church and I left for college, they stopped.

So, it really varies on the parents and a few other things.

It's not something anyone can immediately assume and figure out just by looking at the parents.
 
Curious, what was your purpose to know about it?

First, PSE, and Total Communication. Now i use the mixed of PSE and ASL.
 
Curious, what was your purpose to know about it?
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I wanted to know about it because I'm trying to learn sign language to be able to communicate with a couple of people I met who are deaf, they are both deaf and one of their parents is deaf, but I didn't know whether they signed in ASL, SEE OR PSL.
 
Pidgin Signed English is just ASL in English word orders. So it's a bastardized form of ASL. So if you know ASL, then you know PSE. All it require is just dropping the ASL grammar altogether and be "English."

Signed Exact English is a system of its own, and isn't completely transparent with ASL. They don't always share the same signs either.
 
signinglion said:
I wanted to know about it because I'm trying to learn sign language to be able to communicate with a couple of people I met who are deaf, they are both deaf and one of their parents is deaf, but I didn't know whether they signed in ASL, SEE OR PSL.
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Coming from a Deaf family, they no doubt sign more ASL. But you should be able to communicate well with them using PSE. PSE is a contact language that came into existence when English speakers and ASL signers dommunicated naturally with each other. The entire purpose behind its existence is to facilitate communication between hearing signers and deaf signers.
 
jillio said:
Coming from a Deaf family, they no doubt sign more ASL. But you should be able to communicate well with them using PSE. PSE is a contact language that came into existence when English speakers and ASL signers dommunicated naturally with each other. The entire purpose behind its existence is to facilitate communication between hearing signers and deaf signers.
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Ditto. That's common for me to meet so many Deaf people who uses PSE/ASL.
 
While I agree with Frisky and Jillio, I have noticed that some deaf families do a lot of something that looks like PSE(I feel it's more an advanced and fast paced mix of different languages than PSE). It can be that the parents was raised in an oral school or are too old to be a part of the empowerment movements in the seventies, or have family members that are hard of hearing, too.

PSE style or not, those families are often pretty fluent in ASL, too. Their multilingual skills, and capacity to switch beetween full on languages often impress me.
 
flip said:
While I agree with Frisky and Jillio, I have noticed that some deaf families do a lot of something that looks like PSE(I feel it's more an advanced and fast paced mix of different languages than PSE). It can be that the parents was raised in an oral school or are too old to be a part of the empowerment movements in the seventies, or have family members that are hard of hearing, too.

PSE style or not, those families are often pretty fluent in ASL, too. Their multilingual skills, and capacity to switch beetween full on languages often impress me.
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Can't dispute that. ;)
 
signinglion said:
I wanted to know about it because I'm trying to learn sign language to be able to communicate with a couple of people I met who are deaf, they are both deaf and one of their parents is deaf, but I didn't know whether they signed in ASL, SEE OR PSL.
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Why don't you just ask them?
 
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