American Sign Language Analysis

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Hello, I began my life as a bilingual speaker of American Sign Language (ASL) and English. My mother, Tracie Snow, a bilingual speaker of English and ASL which I was growing with that ASL only. My father, David Snow, is FULL Deaf. For him it was very important that we be raised signing more than just English. So although we lived in Florida and living that way. It starts from my family; I am closer, more with them. By age 5 or 6 from on now I use sign ASL proficiently. However, for lack of a community with communing is Needed-English is still the language in which I feel most confident expressing myself without fear of error because I need to read and write English to communicate with schools and friends. I learned to sign at family home.

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