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1. Missionaries and teachers who travel to other countries, teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to local Deaf communities are often responsible for: Answer: The deaths of local, indigenous sign la... nguages. 2. Ethnologue estimates there are 137 different sign languages used in the world. 3. ASL is classified as a “foreign language” in the United States, just like: Answer: Navajo 4. The first school for the deaf, now known as the American School for the Deaf, was established by Deaf Frenchman Laurent Clerc and hearing American Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in Hartford, Connecticut during the year of 1817. 5. Jacobs (1996) says that the average number of years needed to become fluent in ASL is: Answer: 7 6. ASL was formally recognized as a natural language in 1960 by William C. Stokoe, Dorothy Casterline and Carl Cronenberg. 7. American Sign Language, which is slightly less than 300 years old, came from several older sign languages. What were they? Answer: [Show More]

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