§ 911. American Sign Language; foreign language credit
(a) American Sign Language is a visual-gestural system of communication used by many in the Deaf community living in the United States and Canada. It is a complete and complex language that has its own syntax, rhetoric, and grammar that is used to convey information and meaning through signs made with the hands, arms, facial markers, and other body movements.
(b) Any public or independent school may offer American Sign Language for foreign language credit. (Added 2001, No. 16, § 2.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
§ 908. Pre-Memorial Day exercises
§ 909. Tobacco use, alcohol and drug abuse prevention education curriculum
§ 910. Coordination of services to children and adolescents with a severe emotional disturbance
§ 911. American Sign Language; foreign language credit
§ 912. Student’s right of refusal; animal dissection
§ 941. Flexible Pathways Initiative
§ 943. High School Completion Program
§ 944. Dual Enrollment Program
§ 945. Adult Diploma Program; General Educational Development Program
§ 947. Early college program; report; appropriation
§ 1045. Driver training course