A new language invented by a group of uneducated deaf Nicaraguan children brought together in the 1980s.
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Abstract of PhD thesis by Ann Senghas.
Background information focusing on the emergence of language, and a video from the PBS show.
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.
Article and video from "60 Minutes" about the development of the language.
(April 26, 2000)
A journalist interviews some of the deaf Nicaraguan school children who use a new sign language they invented on their own. From the New York Times Magazine.
(October 24, 1999)
Abstract of PhD thesis by Ann Senghas.
Background information focusing on the emergence of language, and a video from the PBS show.
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.
Article and video from "60 Minutes" about the development of the language.
(April 26, 2000)
A journalist interviews some of the deaf Nicaraguan school children who use a new sign language they invented on their own. From the New York Times Magazine.
(October 24, 1999)
