ASL to become a foreign language in Alabama</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="ASL to become a foreign language in Alabama"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="ASL,to,become,a,foreign,language,in,Alabama"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">28-07-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>ASL to become a foreign language in Alabama</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Alabama, USA (Tuscaloosa News): Deaf students in Alabama often have been unable to receive advanced academic diplomas because of the requirement that they learn a traditional, spoken foreign language, like French or Spanish - a major obstacle since American Sign Language does not translate into foreign languages (Editor’s note: why not?). But that may change under a bill passed by the Legislature Tuesday. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050727/APN/507271143 " target="blank">www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050727/APN/507271143 </a> <br> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show