Deaf Kids in Nicaragua Give Birth to New Language
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Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language -- a sophisticated
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At 2 years old, Lanah Boissy has perfected the art of linguistic one-upmanship. Perched in a highchair at dinnertime in Sterling, she will say something in Farsi, wait for a look of bafflement from her Senegal-born parents and dissolve into giggles when they are forced to ask if she would please...
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Children read better when taught with a new system of phonics that builds on their own diction, researchers say.
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Talking to youngsters in the language of text could increase their access to services.
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The way children learn may determine the building blocks of language, suggests a study of deaf Nicaraguan children. Ann Senghas of New York&#39;s Columbia University, US, and colleagues studied three generations
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An increasing number of American parents want their children to be bilingual if not multilingual.
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Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language - a sophisticated system that has evolved and grown, researchers reported on Friday.
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The proportion of primary school pupils with English as a second language has risen by 73% in a decade.
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GAZA CITY -- The batteries are the size of a button on a man's shirt, small silvery dots that power hearing aids for several hundred Palestinian students taught by the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children in Gaza City.
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A group of students working for IBM develops technology that automatically converts the spoken word to British Sign Language.
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Emma Acebo, a 6-month-old girl who was born in Colombia, has been an American citizen since her adoptive parents brought her to New York last month.
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Scientists believe learning a second language alters a part of the brain.
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Jobless people who cannot speak English will have to learn the language or face benefit cuts under new plans.
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Fissures that have long roiled the autism community have made their way into the Wright family, founders of mega-charity Autism Speaks.
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Facebook.com has introduced a  version of the site for Spanish-language speakers, the first of  several languages beyond English the social network site plans  to offer, the company said on Thursday.
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Finding the right words for tricky conversations with children.
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Language tensions overshadow the new school year in Moldova's breakaway Trans-dniester region.