A look at the history of ASL's development as a language and why English is a problematic influence.

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Citations:
Hirsch, Rudolf. Printing, selling and reading: 1450-1550. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1974. Print.
Edwards, R. A. R. Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture. N.p.: New York U Press, 2012. Print.

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