American Sign Language is just that: a language. ASL has grammatical features completely different than that of English! For example: ASL relies heavily on facial expression to indicate sentence structure, sentence type, and even specific words. Body movement is instrumental to the understanding of storytelling. There are a multitude of components to this heavily visual language that are not available in spoken language.
ASL has developed over many years as a rich language connected to the Deaf community, and continues to evolve just as all languages do. Learning ASL is not learning a visual form of English, it has a completely unique structure of its own. All Visually Speaking instructors are passionate about teaching and sharing American Sign Language with both the Deaf and hearing communities!
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