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More schools for the deaf were founded after ASD, and knowledge of ASL spread to those schools.  In addition, the rise of Deaf community organizations bolstered the continued use of ASL. 

 

Societies such as شلال محمد الشحي كلمات اغنية مكتوبة the National Association of the Deaf and the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf held national conventions that attracted signers from across the country.  All of that contributed to ASL's wide use over a large geographical area, atypical of a sign language.

 

While oralism, an approach to educating deaf students focusing on oral language, had previously been used in American schools, the Milan Congress made it dominant and effectively banned the use of sign languages at schools in the United States and Europe.

 

However, the efforts of Deaf advocates and educators, more lenient enforcement of the Congress's mandate, and the use of ASL in religious education and proselytism ensured greater use and documentation compared to European sign languages, albeit more influenced by fingerspelled loanwords and borrowed idioms from English as students were societally pressured to achieve fluency in spoken language.

 

Nevertheless, oralism remained the predominant method of deaf education up to the 1950s. Linguists did not consider sign language to be true "language" but as something inferior.