ntial English will be the same (Lou 91).
After Anthony moved to California, he continued to improve on the system with some other teachers. They changed the name of the system to Seeing Essential English (SEE I). Part of this was to appeal to hearing parents of deaf children (Lou 91). The group of teachers eventually broke into multiple groups over how much of ASL should be retained in the system. The system developed by the first offshoot is not in much use. It is Linguistics of Visual English (LOVE) and was intended to be used in preschools and kindergarten. It is the system of manual English which most closely follows the speech pattern and rhythm of spoken English. As the result it retains the smallest amount of ASL signs (Lou 92) except for the Rochester method which fingerspells all words which are also spoken.
The second group branched off and developed Seeing Essential English II (SEE II). SEE II retains more of ASL signs than SEE I (Lou 92). For example SEE I signs both butter and fly to convey the word butterfly. SEE II borrows the complete sign for butterfly from ASL. SEE II is made up of 61 percent ASL signs, 18 percent modified ASL signs, and 21 percent newly invented signs. These systems we
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