Anyone here Deaf or studying Deaf Ed.?

I’m pretty def.

lol, mos def

I don’t know ASL or SEE, let alone much beyond a couple of spoken languages but this was an interesting question as I’ve never heard of SEE—so I Wikied it.

The argument against SEE mentioned in the Wiki article is that ”... it distances deaf children from deaf culture.” I can imagine that happening. While one of the arguments for SEE is ”...that it provides children with a visual form of the English language.” The latter struck me as being quite redundant in that a person who’s deaf doesn’t also mean that they’re blind, in that they should be able to read just fine.

I’m not an educator nor am I deaf but I would think placing an emphasis on visual communication—using ASL which is a language created out of necessity rather than in the case of SEE which seems to have been devised out of opinion—and literature would be the best way the stimulate a student’s interest and understanding in language.

A friend’s been talking about taking a Sign Language course later in the year I might see if I can go with her because as far as I know there’s quite a large deaf community where I live.

from what i have learned about the deaf community they have there own culture and ways. I think that SEE would be taking away from that and compltly mess with the language.

Its like in Spanish where you say things backwords sometimes, if we made it to where it is an exact word to word translation it wouldnt be spanish, i think the same goes with ASL

It truly depends on the person (if you are interperating for someone). I have worked with people who perfer SEE over ASL, and the opposite.

but personaly, i find that SEE is slightly easier; being that i am a hearing person..

What @Jamspoon said. For someone who doesn’t know ASL or SEE and had to wiki it, a great answer!

SEE is based on spoken English, with additional signs for suffixes and prefixes, making it cumbersome. It doesn’t work in either spoken or signed languages.
Language should be one of the most efficient, effortless things you do. Here’s a short video showing the difference