Why is the Writing is too hard for the deaf people?

Question

I am freshman student in RIT. I have struggle in English, grammar and writing. These are not my type to do but I required to take for my majors in Psychology and Public Policy.

Answer 1

You need to contact Dr. Monokowski and Dr. Cynthia Sanders. They are professors at NTID/RIT in Rochester, NY. They would be able to help you themselves, or lead you to someone who can help you with your English (reading/writing) skills.

I have had both for distance learning classes in ASL Linguistics and Orientation to Deafness. Both professors are Dr.s in English and Linguistics.

Answer 2

English and American Sign Language are as different as English and Japanese.  they are 2 completely different languages.

Answer 3

I'm assuming you speak American Sign Language considering the classes at RIT (to my knowledge) are taught in sign.

It's the same as learning a foreign language, except the deaf have it harder because you can't use the sounds to produce words.

Plus, I constantly use these words everyday to communicate with the people around me, not just to read or like a deaf person. Whereas you only read and write in English.

Not to mention the huge grammar difference between the languages.

Answer 4

Unfortunately this is not an uncommon problem for people who are born deaf. Children begin learning their languages as infants and through the auditory channel. They are little language absorption machines and they learn correct grammar by hearing it spoken. They have good grammar skills as early as 4 or 5.

Deaf children miss this crucial learning period and have to learn language at a later age, when they can start to read. This means that those early critical periods have been missed. Even with SEE or even worse, ASL, the grammar will not be correct.

ASL is a wonderful language, don't get me wrong. I love it, but it is not signed in the same grammatical order as spoken language and connectors are left out.

This doesn't mean that you can't learn to write, because many deaf people can write. It only explains why it is difficult.

You might want to take a course in English grammar. That may help. Another thing you can do is read, read, read. this helps get grammar into your head.

Answer 5

Probably because some of them have been deaf all of there lives and have used sign language and have not spoken the english language before and verbage is used differently.