Editing Signing Exact English (section)

==Uses==
Because SEE-II is a manual version of spoken English, SEE-II and its variants may be easy for English speakers to learn.  Currently, the average Deaf or hard-of-hearing student graduating from high school reads at approximately the third- or fourth-grade level.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Mueller|first=Vannesa|author2=Hurtig, R. |title=Technology-Enhanced Shared Reading With Deaf and Hard- of-Hearing Children: The Role of a Fluent Signing Narrator|journal=Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education|year=2010|volume=15|issue=1|pages=72–101|doi=10.1093/deafed/enp023|pmid=19734237|doi-access=free}}</ref> SEE-II has been used in hopes of promoting reading skills in Deaf students. Children who grew up on SEE-II are now in their 20s and 30s and members of the Deaf Community.  A small survey<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Appelman, K. I., Callahan, J. O., Mayer, M. H., Luetke, B. S., & Stryker, D. S.|date=2012|title=Education, employment, and independent living of young adults who are Deaf and hard of hearing|journal=American Annals of the Deaf|volume=157|issue=3|pages=264–275|doi=10.1353/aad.2012.1619|pmid=22978202|s2cid=42337166 }}</ref> of 46 former students of a school in the Northwest of America that uses SEE indicated that many graduated from high school and attended college. Many graduate from college and obtain jobs, live independently (78.8%), drive (93.3%), and vote (88.9%). About 15% of the participants in this study receive [[Supplemental Security Income]]. The advocacy group [[Hands & Voices]] argues that SEE-II is easy for English speaking parents and teachers of Deaf children to master because they do not have to learn a new grammar, and that it provides support for individuals who utilize cochlear implants, helping them match the SEE-II handshapes that they see with the hearing and speaking that they utilize.<ref name="Stephenson">{{cite web|url=http://www.handsandvoices.org/comcon/articles/see.htm|title=Communication Considerations: Signing Exact English (SEE)|last=Stephenson|first=Patrice|access-date=5 December 2013}}</ref>