Great stuff! That is HUGE difference between Language Science and Study. I liked how you describe that deaf people should embrace both languages equally. I am all for English as long as ASL is embraced equally!
We need to keep our eyes on their progress! Thanks Ron!
After reading the description about HSLS (Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences) department at http://hsls.gallaudet.edu, I am not convinced that language science is exclusive to the spoken English language. It seems that the department intends the language science to include both spoken and signed languages.
Language science can contribute understanding and knowledge about the disorders among the deaf and hard-of-hearing signers. For example, there are some autistic, deaf signers in the U.S. All or most of the knowledge about autism are mainly shaped by the researches in spoken languages with very little or no study in any signed language. The department of language science at Gallaudet University can help the autistic, deaf signers by researching their disorders and share the findings with the world along with the possible remedies.
Here is a possible scenario that I am imagining:
A researcher in the department of language science named Jennifer is studying the cases of deaf signers who exhibit different degrees of language delays. She notices that 80% of them do not show any S-V-O structure while 20% of them show few instances of S-V-O structure. But, she is not familiar with the frequency of S-V-O structure in ASL. She goes to the first floor and meets an ASL linguist named Jessica.
Jennifer explains her findings to Jessica and asks her, “Can you tell me how often S-V-O structure occurs in ASL and at what stage does S-V-O start to appear in the average language development?”
Jessica is not sure and proceeds to her file cabinet for data. She shares the data with Jennifer and explains the statistics and theories behind S-V-O structure.
Jennifer thanks Jessica for the data. Now that Jennifer is armed with the knowledge about the frequency and timing of S-V-O structure, she is able to apply the knowledge to her study on the cases with the hope of helping the language-delayed deaf signers to catch up with their language development.
It seems that Gallaudet University is in a unique position to provide research in language science that include both spoken and signed languages.
I suggest that someone approaches the department and find out exactly what the language science is studying. If the language science covers both spoken and signed language (and written languages – there are some disorders relating with writing), it needs your support. If the language science does not cover the signed languages, I suggest that the department needs to be reminded of its unique position in contributing knowledge to the world.
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Ron, my ASL vblog response:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8750874277016637183
Great stuff! That is HUGE difference between Language Science and Study. I liked how you describe that deaf people should embrace both languages equally. I am all for English as long as ASL is embraced equally!
We need to keep our eyes on their progress! Thanks Ron!
After reading the description about HSLS (Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences) department at http://hsls.gallaudet.edu, I am not convinced that language science is exclusive to the spoken English language. It seems that the department intends the language science to include both spoken and signed languages.
Language science can contribute understanding and knowledge about the disorders among the deaf and hard-of-hearing signers. For example, there are some autistic, deaf signers in the U.S. All or most of the knowledge about autism are mainly shaped by the researches in spoken languages with very little or no study in any signed language. The department of language science at Gallaudet University can help the autistic, deaf signers by researching their disorders and share the findings with the world along with the possible remedies.
Here is a possible scenario that I am imagining:
A researcher in the department of language science named Jennifer is studying the cases of deaf signers who exhibit different degrees of language delays. She notices that 80% of them do not show any S-V-O structure while 20% of them show few instances of S-V-O structure. But, she is not familiar with the frequency of S-V-O structure in ASL. She goes to the first floor and meets an ASL linguist named Jessica.
Jennifer explains her findings to Jessica and asks her, “Can you tell me how often S-V-O structure occurs in ASL and at what stage does S-V-O start to appear in the average language development?”
Jessica is not sure and proceeds to her file cabinet for data. She shares the data with Jennifer and explains the statistics and theories behind S-V-O structure.
Jennifer thanks Jessica for the data. Now that Jennifer is armed with the knowledge about the frequency and timing of S-V-O structure, she is able to apply the knowledge to her study on the cases with the hope of helping the language-delayed deaf signers to catch up with their language development.
It seems that Gallaudet University is in a unique position to provide research in language science that include both spoken and signed languages.
I suggest that someone approaches the department and find out exactly what the language science is studying. If the language science covers both spoken and signed language (and written languages – there are some disorders relating with writing), it needs your support. If the language science does not cover the signed languages, I suggest that the department needs to be reminded of its unique position in contributing knowledge to the world.
Joseph Pietro Riolo
josephpietrojeungriolo@gmail.com
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Ron, that is a very powerful message of thoughts. It has to be geared to the right definition before it gets into chaos. Thanks for a wake-up call.