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	Talking Hands - http://cgi-user.brown.edu/Administration/Brown_Alumni_Magazine/98/3-98/features/portrait.html 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.
	A Linguistic Big Bang - http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991024mag-sign-language.html 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.
	Evolution: Birth of a Language - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/2/l_072_04.html Background information focusing on the emergence of language, and a video from the PBS show.
	A Language at Its Genesis - http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/linguistics/examples.jsp Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl's work to document the process.
	Gallaudet University Press News - http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/enewsletter4alt.html Includes an article about the development of NSL.

	Birth Of A Language - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/04/25/60II/main188527.shtml Article and video from "60 Minutes" about the development of the language.
	Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc. - http://www.unet.maine.edu/courses/NSLP/ University of Maine research effort. Descriptions of study projects, schools at Bluefields and Condega, publications list, and staff resumes.
	Children's Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language - http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/diss/SENG01.html Abstract of PhD thesis by Ann Senghas.
	SignWriting in Nicaragua - http://www.signwriting.org/nicaragua/nicaragua.html 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.

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