American Sign Language (ASL) is a language used by people with hearing loss or deafness where meaning is communicated via gestures and facial expressions. ASL is not simply signed English, it has its own grammar, sentence structure, etc. and is used in the United States. Other countries have their own signed languages; there are more than 300 different kinds! This is why simply having captioning on a meeting or video isn't the same as having ASL interpretation (which is the ideal).
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