Development of Signed English

Running head: DEVELOPMENT OF SIGNED ENGLISH
DEVELOPMENT OF SIGNED ENGLISH
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DEVELOPMENT OF SIGNED ENGLISH
Q1. Describe how and why Signed English was formed? Comparison of Signed English and
American Sign Language (ASL)? How deaf community uses Signed Language ?
Children before the year 1970 used the oral only process of education as because at that
time parents as well as other adult person and teachers did not prefer to use sign language. Only
after the 1970’s Sign English was used as a tool for education for the deaf and dumb. The main
three reasons why Signed English was formed is because at that time there was a problem with
the education levels of the deaf children (Supalla Siple and Fischer, 2017). They were facing
problem with syntax-ting and morphology in their writings. A discrepancy also arose regarding
the learning of the normal knowledge between the deaf and dumb students. There was also a
concern regarding the speech reading.
The Signed English was formed by Dr. March Marschark and other teachers of deaf as
well as few other professionals in the year 2000 who was the author of Deaf Education and Deaf
Studies. He had a valuable support to the listening, speaking and speech of the English Language
in the schools. At that time The Deaf community found it very difficult to use the Oral English as
in the form of speaking and signing (Johnston and Schembri 2018). In Signed English each and
every word in a sentence which is spoken is signed. It fully uses the language and grammar
which is used in English. It does not use the language or grammar used in the deaf signed
languages.
The basic difference between the Signed English and the American signed language is
that Signed English is mostly used in classrooms whereas the American Sign Language is only
used where the focus is put on the thought shared or the message provided. Taking the example
of signing “I have two sister”, in Signed English every word has to signed whereas in American