Is there a school in Queens, NY where I can go to learn sign language?”
hank you for your interest in taking classes at The Sign Language Center. Our goal is to combine the teaching of a language with an understanding of the culture it comes from. We believe this enriches the learning experience and allows the acquisition of language to be easy and fun. In the past twenty-five years, there has been a surge of research analyzing American Sign Language (ASL) linguistically. These studies provide evidence that American Sign Language (ASL) meets the criteria of being a true language with grammatical and syntactical rules. This research has increased interest and awareness concerning the deaf community and the Deaf culture. Deaf culture is the celebration of pride in the history and the traditions of the community. Knowledge of American Sign Language is what truly holds the community together and how social and cultural identity is passed down from generation to generation. Social mores and rules are defined and created through the use of visual language. For e
