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Old 03-04-2008, 06:43 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jillio View Post
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Yeah, it's said that even many deaf in this day and age don't realize that ASL is a language. It also say a lot about the bias toward spoken language and it's clear those students picked up on that.

I remember a lot of older deaf saying they had always thought sign was inferior to spoken language and this was before Stokes discovered that ASL.
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