What is the difference between SEE (Signed Exact English) and ASL (American Sign Language)?
Signed English is a sign language that does follow the same rules and word order of English. Most deaf children of hearing parents learn Signed English instead of ASL because their parents are hearing and want their child to learn English. In teaching their children, the parents tend to sign in English instead of ASL, because English, not sign language, is their primary language. Most people believe that ASL is a more natural language for deaf children to learn than Signed English, because deaf children don’t speak English. It’s hard for them to write the language. Just like hearing children, deaf children spend a lot of time in school learning the rules of written and spoken English, but in fact they don’t formally learn the rules of ASL. They pick it up from adults and other kids.
