It’s important to know that baby sign language is different from the sign language that’s used by the hearing impaired. In some cases, baby sign language uses modified gestures from American Sign Language (ASL), making it similar but not the same. Baby sign language often uses simplified ...
In this article, we'll focus mainly on American Sign Language, the dominant sign language in the United States. We'll also look at Signed Exact English (SEE) and Pidgin Signed English (PSE), two alternatives to ASL that are used primarily between deaf people and hearing people. SEE and ...
However, many of the signs in ASL were adapted from French Sign Language (LSF). So a speaker of ASL in France could potentially communicate clearly with deaf people there, even though the spoken languages are completely different. Learning to sign in the Sign Language Interpretation Lab at ...