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Sign Language Lesson 1 – The History of American Sign Language
A long long time ago, in the 1600’s, Geronimo Cardano, a Northern Italian Physician declared that deaf people could be taught to understand written combinations of pictures by associating those pictures with the thing they represented. This led to the first book ever published that contained and explained the Manual Alphabet ( Fancy Word For Fingerspelling or ASL Alphabet ). This book was published in 1620 by a Juan Pablo de Bonet.

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