Nicaraguan Sign Language Sign Languages Natural Languages

Covers the written representation of the signed language, the spread of literacy, and first-person reports from those teaching deaf children to read and write their native signed language.

• Talking Hands - Profile of Judy and James Shepard-Kegl, who are natural bringing the sign language developed on Nicaragua\\'s Pacific natural coast to uneducated deaf people in isolated communities natural on the Atlantic coast.
• A Language at Its Genesis - Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, sign languages and researcher Judy Kegl\'s work to document the sign languages process.
• Children's Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language - Abstract of PhD thesis by Ann Senghas.
• Birth Of A Language - Article and video from "60 Minutes" about the natural development of natural the language.
• SignWriting in Nicaragua - Covers the written representation of the signed language, the spread natural of literacy, and first-person reports from those teaching deaf children natural to read and write their native signed language.
• A Linguistic Big Bang - A journalist interviews some of the deaf Nicaraguan nicaraguan sign language natural school children who use a new sign language nicaraguan sign language natural they invented on their own. From the New nicaraguan sign language natural York Times Magazine.
• Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc. - University of Maine research effort. Descriptions of study natural projects, schools at Bluefields and Condega, publications list, natural and staff resumes.
• Gallaudet University Press News - Includes an article about the development of NSL.
• Evolution: Birth of a Language - Background information focusing on the emergence of language, natural and a nicaraguan sign language video from the PBS show.

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