Electronic Resource
E-book American Sign Language : The Easy Way
American Sign Language has had a durable history. Its origin can be traced to the emergence of a large community of deaf people centered around the first public school for deaf children in France, founded about 1761; the language that arose in this community is still being used in France today. In 1817, a Deaf teacher from this school helped establish the first public school for deaf children in the United States. Although his language was incorporated into the early curriculum, the children's own gestural systems mingled with the official signed language, resulting in a new form that was no longer identifiable as French Sign Language. Some signs and structures in ASL today still reflect their French Sign Language origins, although the two languages are distinct. The founding of the first school for the Deaf in America in 1817 is a landmark in the history of American Sign Language, or ASL as it is most often called. Located in Hartford, Connecticut, and now known as the American School for the Deaf, the school brought together two main sources in the development of ASL signs and grammar.
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