Erik Drasgow
Contributor
Professor, Department of Educational Studies, College of Education, University of South Carolina. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent (2010) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (1)
American Sign Language (ASL), visual-gestural language used by most of the Deaf community in the United States and Canada. ASL is a natural language with a structure quite different from spoken English. It is not a manual-gestural representation of spoken English, nor is it pantomime. Instead, ASL…
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