Is American Sign Language (ASL) hard to learn?
No, it is not a difficult language to learn. It is important to understand that for the purpose of supporting hearing children’s language development, pre-literacy skills, and cognitive development you are only using the vocabulary from ASL, you are not teaching them the whole language. As an educator, care giver, or parent you will highlight the word you want a young child to know. Such as milk, every time you say the word milk you will also sign it. This interaction should take place with adults as well as children, that way the use of ASL will seem natural to children learning it.
