According to Dictionary.com, Sign
Language is, “any of several
visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures,
as used among deaf people.” Sign Language isn’t universal each country have a
different Sign Language system. Even though British English and American
English are vey similar, they have a different Sign Language system. Moore, M
and Levitan, L says in their book ‘For Hearing People Only,’ “BSL is the
creation of members of the Deaf community on the British Isles, New Zealand and
Australia; ASL is an indigenous product influenced by French Sign Language, as
brought to the States by Laurent Clerc.” American Sign Language is closer to
the French Sign Language because the first Deaf school’s staff came from Franc.
Canada doesn’t have a
Sign Language system they use American Sign Language.
