Complete Randomness

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People in the deaf communities around the world sign in languages other than American Sign Language. It occurred to me while laying in bed that when it was part of my job to arrange for sign language interpreters for patients that it was never specified what language they needed, in fact it wasn't asked as far as I could tell. So it simply a fact that is generally unknown to those who aren't hard of hearing or is it an extension of the "live here speak our language" attitude so prevalent in the US? Which I personally find both amusing and frustrating since the US unlike many countries doesn't actually have an official language. So I sometimes want to needle folks who express that attitude with questions about which forefathers language they want everyone to speak, that of the French settlers or the Spanish settlers since they were both here before the English settlers.  Anyway back to sign language; I wish I'd both learned more and retained more from when the boys were young. Now I don't remember a blasted thing even though we signed daily for a couple of years when the oldest only talked in echolalic snippets and the youngest was pre-verbal. Maybe I can take a class from home, especially since I have a friend who is deaf in one ear and losing hearing in the other.

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