History of deaf education and sign language in USA & UK

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History of deaf education in America & England. 1000

To first address the comparitive ways inwhich the United States of America and England educate the people in their socities who are deaf one must approah the history that bought this discussion to context. It is the development of this history that allows the education for the deaf to be understandable in todays culture. One must first comprehend that American Sign Language (ASL) is in most ways completely different from British Sign Language (BSL), the reasoning for this is soon to follow. This is the most obvious comparison in the two educational systems. They are teaching what is primarily a different language.

Most scholars agree that the history of sign language is propbably as old as pre-history, it is an intruiguing and established history that goes back further than 1000bc when Hebrew law known as the Talmud prohibited deaf persons from owning property, to the Ancient Greeks, who were a learned society and believed intelligence could only be expressed oraly, and therefore excluded the deaf populace in their society, Artistole said "Greek was the perfect language; all people who did not speak Greek were considered Barbarians.