id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8667 American Sign Language - Wikipedia .html text/html 10612 1786 68 That is because when Deaf education was beginning in the United States, many educators flocked to the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, whose central location for the first generation of educators in Deaf education to learn American Sign Language allows ASL to be more standardized than it is variant.[25] SignWriting, proposed in 1974 by Valerie Sutton,[38]:154 is the first writing system to gain use among the public and the first writing system for sign languages to be included in the Unicode Standard.[41] SignWriting consists of more than 5000 distinct iconic graphs/glyphs.[38]:154 Currently, it is in use in many schools for the Deaf, particularly in Brazil, and has been used in International Sign forums with speakers and researchers in more than 40 countries, including Brazil, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Tunisia, and the United States. American Sign Language (ASL) American Sign Language (ASL) American Sign Language (ASL) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8667.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8667.txt