students are creating/enhancing classes this year.
4 of them want to take sign language.
Wikipedia estimates that, worldwide, 1 in 1000 people are deaf. (0.1%)
Considering the world population is 6.6 billion,
0.1% = 6.6 million
0.18% = 11.9 million
0.23% = 15.2 million
0.49% = 32.3 million
Jarrell Robinson video via @gcouros
Evelyn Glennie's only real aim in life is to teach people to listen...
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Some do provide credit in districts in other states. But as we designed the world language standards, we had this discussion which is also a national discussion. We even contacted the American sign language group in Colorado. They wanted to develop their own standards because their skills and goals are in a very different context than ours. Also American sign language is just that-American and not international. Our WL goals are about communicating across cultures with different language in a cultural context. They are not a part of our wl credit for that reason. Also we were being respectable to the ASL group since we do not know their standards/how to determine proficiency, etc. This is also the National World Language association's view. It would be unfair to the ASL group to assume we knew their content/goals/standards.
I would suggest that students apply for independent study credit and contact ASL group to find out how to access and determine proficiency.
thank you Toni. we'll look into it.
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