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book_hoarding_dragon's review
2.0
This book was meant to be a non-biased, non-judgmental approach to educate parents about different forms of signed communication. For the most part I think that it did that, if you are an ASL student... I think this book might help you understand and differentiate between ASL and SEE if you read this in ASL 1 or 2. But I read this in ASL 3 and I feel like this was a total waste, the first third of the book was already things that I had learned in class.
Why the two stars, then? I feel like this authors could have done their homework more, they insinuate that the Deaf world is the only place that a signed language had arisen. Which isn't true Native Americans or First people had a sign language. You can find reference to it as Plains Sign Language or Native (American) Sign Language. Another thing the author talks about chimps learning sign and the author thinks that chimps are not actually using signs. One of my majors for my Bachelors is going to be primate behavior, I don't view chimps or any primate as being anymore less intelligent than humans. I've taken Biological Anthropology, linguistics, and American Mosaic (an anthropology class about Americans) each one has something in common: "there is no higher or lower". The first with Darwin's reference to organisms; next to accents and languages; and the last was from Franz Boas, the father of Modern Anthropology, in regards to cultures. This means that there is no better or lesser in any of these fields. I've taken Darwin's thought to heart and I firmly believe that I am no better than any other animal. Some people may not agree with me on this, but I still didn't like the author disregarding primates.
Why the two stars, then? I feel like this authors could have done their homework more, they insinuate that the Deaf world is the only place that a signed language had arisen. Which isn't true Native Americans or First people had a sign language. You can find reference to it as Plains Sign Language or Native (American) Sign Language. Another thing the author talks about chimps learning sign and the author thinks that chimps are not actually using signs. One of my majors for my Bachelors is going to be primate behavior, I don't view chimps or any primate as being anymore less intelligent than humans. I've taken Biological Anthropology, linguistics, and American Mosaic (an anthropology class about Americans) each one has something in common: "there is no higher or lower". The first with Darwin's reference to organisms; next to accents and languages; and the last was from Franz Boas, the father of Modern Anthropology, in regards to cultures. This means that there is no better or lesser in any of these fields. I've taken Darwin's thought to heart and I firmly believe that I am no better than any other animal. Some people may not agree with me on this, but I still didn't like the author disregarding primates.
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