What initially helped ASL spread as a new language? Gallaudet trained ASL interpreters to travel around the country
teaching and
interpreting in Deaf communities,
More schools for Deaf children were opened in the United States,
Deaf community leaders actively sought out new, more standardized ways to
communicate as the Deaf population increased across the country,
In keeping with the westward migration trend of the 1800s, Deaf communities
spread farther west and took ASL with them.