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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a good question as I think some colleges and universities don’t weight it as heavily.

I am deaf and use ASL but I don’t think it is a perfect substitute for learning a foreign language. The deaf community is a fascinating culture but the language itself is a dialect with limited utility and doesn’t derive from a written root language and therefore doesn’t achieve the same thing as a Romance language or similar.[/quote]

Thank you for your thoughtful response. I agree it doesn't seem to be a similar kind of learning process as a traditional foreign language. I only just learned that some schools will consider it a substitute but now am interested in finding out more since my daughter has a learning disorder that makes learning foreign language very difficult.

I agree with the OP that maybe it's just easiest to avoid a school like UVA that has a foreign language requirement (although as I discovered they do offer ASL at UVA and allow it to count for that requirement).

We are in the zone for W-L where it is offered, which is why I'm even considering it. She is in Spanish II now as an 8th grader and I thought she could do 2 years of ASL to complete that requirement, or 3 if she really enjoyed it. Otherwise we will have her go through one more year of Spanish in 9th grade and call it quits after level III so she can focus on her strengths. [/quote]

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