Eleanor Culas who was the first FSD student to study at Gallaudet University, which is a deaf university in Washington D.C., United States. She was impressed with American Sign Language used by the Deaf community in the United States. She was convinced that American Sign Language would be useful in Malaysia. Culas was not satisfied with the current system used in Malaysia, where a Manchester-based Oral method was adopted. Therefore, Eleanor asked Frances M. Parsons, a Gallaudet lecturer, deaf herself with a strong preference for Signed English, to stop-by in Malaysia and share her expertise in Deaf Education with the FSD teachers.