Nicaraguan Sign Language

[Francis Hult]

Organon

 

Weekend Wordery: Nicaraguan Sign Language

 

Until the early 1980s, deaf children in Nicaragua were mostly kept at home and did not attend school. They did not learn any kind of systematic sign language. But after the Sandinistas came to power in 1979, determined efforts were made to improve the country's education system, which had until then been one of the poorest in Latin America.

 

Full story:

http://organon.jimhufford.com/2010/06/weekend-wordery-nicaraguan-sign-language/

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