Tuesday, July 12, 2011

UCLA eyes adding more American Sign Language course offerings

From The Daily Bruin, the student newspaper at UCLA:Unlike most kids, Valerie Rose (pictured) did not mumble “mommy” or “daddy” as her first words.Instead, at six months old, she began to sign with her hands. Rose, a fourth-year geography and environmental studies student, comes from a family of deaf parents and two adopted deaf siblings. Rose herself has been deaf in her right ear since birth.As