Missy Comes to DeafNation Expo

Jeff, this is a long time AFTER you posted this about the American word usage “ASL.” to answer your question about the difference of its usage in Canada and Mexico or Mexican..everyone has a different way of using signs.. but I think our ASL was picked up from the Native Indians and translated into what or how we use ASL.. I lived in Japan ( I am a Military wife and deaf) during the 50s. the deaf kids in Japan had no way of communicating and did not have the alphabet as we did. so to teach them any thing as how to talk to one other a Navy guy and I taught them SIGNS by pointing at a subject and showing them a sign. there was no way we as Americans could use their “chicken scratch” as we call their writings or lettering s.. it is just like the Canadians have their own way of speech and writings, so do the Mexicans I prefer to use Latin, have their words. and since they are taught ASL that is how it is.Now it is nation wide ASL was began here in the United States. signs have changed into the way they made them understood in their own language and we are now connected to every country, but we as Americans, can not dig the spelled words they might use in ASL as the words they may use for Moon or what ever… hopefully this will answer your question about ASL. its the spelled word we do not know the meaning of unless it is in English. signs are not that much of a problem to figure out and we don’t hear Spanish as in No “habla” espanol or we do speak it but we can or can’t read it when it is on a tv screen used for the american deaf people