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How to use the word sign-language in a Sentence?

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I breathe American Sign Language, when ASL stops, then I will stop breathing.

Douglas Ridloff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My husband and I welcomed our beautiful baby girl, Riley, into the world in October 2020, shortly after Riley's birth through a series of tests with an audiologist, we learned that Riley is deaf.We've made it our goal to give Riley access to as many tools as possible to help her communication and development – that includes giving her access to both American Sign Language, and spoken English.

Christina Pacala

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Riley hearing our voices for the first time was a special moment for us, and it's been fun to share that, and many other special moments, too, like Riley taking her first steps, Riley's first signs and our family learning American Sign Language together.

Christina Pacala

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would love for Hawaii Sign Language to be the same for my son, he'll know that he is a Hawaiian and a deaf person, and there's nothing wrong with either one.

Nikki Kepo'o

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I can have more of an impact going the unconventional route with someone like Chance and go into the areas nobody deaf has been able to get to before, it all leads to something that improves the community. You see sign language in a lot more places than ever before. People are becoming more curious and at the same time more aware of what is going on with the deaf community.

Matt Maxey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That's the funny part -- the two of them together, we shouldn't be taking sign language so seriously.

Carol Padden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Children should be surrounded by sign language as much as possible as soon as the audiological status is determined, if the child gets a cochlear implant and does well with it, fantastic. Then the child is bi-lingual.

Linguist Donna Jo Napoli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They really don’t get the training in medical school to appropriately advise parents on this, parents think the pediatricians know, but pediatricians are lacking in sign language and in raising a deaf child. So this is a problem.

Barbara Raimondo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Maybe it was through some medium that I'm not familiar with. Maybe bouncing it off the ozone layer, for all I know, there's a lot of holes in the ozone layer, so maybe it wasn't the ozone layer that he bounced it off of. Maybe it was through hand telegraph, maybe sign language, who knows?

John McCain

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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