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Originally Posted by darkage
Grew up at W&E Martin School for the deaf in Phila. They did not allow sign language.
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Welcome. Alex, AllDeaf's administrator, is a New Jersey guy.
Forbidding sign language reminds me of the dark ages of the English language. After the Normans invaded England in 1066, the English tongue was outlawed. If you didn't speak French, you lost your tongue . . . sometimes your life, so English went underground for about 250 years.
I'll bet students still used ASL at W&E Martin, right? Just not when the suits were watching.