In an essay , describe an issue in sign language along with your opinion on it.

discussing many issues in the deaf community, some of which are quite controversial and divisive. Perhaps the most controversial of these – as clearly delineated in the required-reading book Deaf Like Me — is the debate in deaf education between speech and sign.

In an essay of between 750-1,000 words, describe this issue along with your opinion on it. In the essay, you must include cited-sources research into the two histories of both ASL education and the so-called Bell System of deaf-speech education.