Should Students Be Taught ASL at a Young Age?

While reading “Should Foreign Languages be mandatory” I wondered what the benefits would be if students were taught American Sign Language (ASL) alongside English at an early age. Deaf children can find it difficult to integrate with other students as hearing children do not know how to converse with deaf children, and sometimes even hearing parents do not know how to communicate with their deaf children. This forces deaf children to rely on translators or be forced to read lips, which affects their social lives. If teachers knew ASL, deaf students would not feel left out and excluded from their peers. I think we should make it a norm for students to learn ASL so that deaf children do not feel so different and excluded from society. Studies have shown that babies learn language faster when they have some hand signals to use as well. Since babies do not know how to pronounce words, they can just make the sign for the thing they need rather than crying. Since this has already shown to be beneficial, why don’t we just continue teaching ASL in elementary school? Do you think ASL would be easy to teach or would it interfere with the other material being taught in elementary schools? How do you think this could this improve society as a whole?