Utah: Sign language scholars need not apply

[Francis Hult]

The Salt Lake Tribune

 

Sign language scholars need not apply

 

American sign language (ASL) is the third most used language in the United States, behind English and Spanish. It is growing rapidly in its popularity as a foreign language course in public schools and is accepted as foreign language credits in colleges and universities across the country. 

 

The LDS Church has ASL-speaking missions and the Book of Mormon has been translated in ASL via DVDs. 

 

But when top ASL students applied to compete in the foreign language category of the annual Sterling Scholarship program sponsored by the Deseret News and KSL-TV, they were turned away. 

 

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