Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl's work to document the process.

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.

Article and video from "60 Minutes" about the development of the language.

Abstract of PhD thesis by Ann Senghas.

Background information focusing on the emergence of language, and a video from the PBS show.

Includes an article about the development of NSL.

University of Maine research effort. Descriptions of study projects, schools at Bluefields and Condega, publications list, and staff resumes.

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.

Profile of Judy and James Shepard-Kegl, who are bringing the sign language developed on Nicaragua's Pacific coast to uneducated deaf people in isolated communities on the Atlantic coast.