2. Meetings
• Meetings will be held on the FIRST and THIRD
Wednesday of every month at 9pm
• Focus on practicing signing, learning about Deaf
culture, and other activities
• Some cool things from last year: advocacy week,
movie night, signing a song with Minor Problem
3. Club Mission
• This club is focused on language and learning
about Deaf culture
• The American Sign Language Club is a group of
students dedicated to learning ASL and
appreciating Deaf culture
• Deaf versus deaf
▫ Deaf refers to a self defined cultural group; not
viewed as a disability
▫ deaf refers to the condition of not being able to
hear
4. A Brief History of ASL
• Deaf education was introduced to America in
1814
• Galladuet and Clerc formed a school together in
America; later in 1864 the first University for the
deaf opened
• Sign language was used in America before the
first school was set up, but it was not nearly as
popularized
5. Different Types of Sign Language
• SEE (signing exact English) – the goal of this is to
exactly replicate English vocabulary and grammar
▫ often modifies ASL handshapes to incorporate the
handshape used for the first letter of the English word
that the SEE sign represents
• Pidgin – a combination of English and ASL; a pidgin
is a language which develops naturally when people
who do not know each other's language wish to
communicate with each other
• Signed languages of other countries – there are
different types of signed language from all over the
world; ASL is just one of many types
