Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.

Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.

English is an auditory language. ASL is a conceptual and visual language. It's not something that can be learned right away.

There's a red leaf that falls from a purple tree it falls it floats down One red leaf against a clear blue sky it floats down Past the marble in the lobby and the geese in flight To the darkening river in the autumn light Where it touches down O like a great bird landing.

“We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didn’t know what to think. It’s hard to think without words ‘cause you haven’t got a clue as to what you’re thinking. So if you think we suffer from a lack of communication now, think what it must have been like then, when people lived in a ‘verbal void’ - made worse by the fact that there were no words such as ‘verbal void‘.”

The thinking behind that is that if you teach them in their own language first, by the time they learn english it's much easier to integrate them in the classroom.