Why Do I Support Sign Language in Deaf Schools?

Hello hearing and superdeafy bloggers,

 I would like to introduce myself. My name is Watermelon. This is my pen name. Obviously, I love this candy! I am excited about joining the blogger community.

 I look forward to share my views about many issues. Welcome to my blog homepage! 

 I grew up communicating in sign language. It's a beautiful language. People say silence is a language. They're right. 

There is so much beauty in the expression of hands. So it seems natural for me to advocate the use of sign language in deaf and mainstreamed schools. 

 From my past experience, I know that oralism was not the effective method for direct communication between teachers and deaf students. 

I will explain why I think that lip reading involves problems that deaf and hard of hearing people are very famaliar with. 

 Let me describe the problems. If teachers have mustaches, they are impossible to read. If the teacher has no teeth, then lipreading is not likely to be successful. If English is the teacher's 2nd language, then lipreading won't help. It means missing a lot of information. I want to emphasize that sign language is a much more effective method for direct communication and transmission of information between teachers and deaf students. It means a full access to real communication and information about academic subjects that deaf and hard of hearing students need to know. So with these things in mind, I strongly advocate the use of sign language in schools and oppose oralism. If you disagree, tell me why. I want to know your views if they can grow corn at all. If they do, I would be interested. Thank you for reading my comments. Signed, Watermelon

I Support the Use of Sign Language in Deaf Schools

Hello to all bloggers,

I would like to introduce myself. My name is Watermelon. This is my pen name.

I grew up communicating in sign language so it seems natural that I advocate the use

the use of sign language both in deaf residential schools and mainstreamed schools.

I know from my past experience that oral method of communication was not effective for teachers to transmit information to the students. Reading lips is not effective because some people are more difficult to read for reasons. One is mustache. Other is missing teeth. When reading lips, a lot of information had been missed. This method had not been successful. Sign language provides a full accesss to information that students need to learn math, history, writing, reading and other academic subjects. I strongly advocate the use of sign language as the best method for direct communication between teachers and students.

Why Do I Support the Use of Sign language in Schools?