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 system that has evolved and grown, researchers reported on Friday.
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Finding the right words for tricky conversations with children.
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To inspire a new generation of peace activists, educators are turning to such figures as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Costa Rica President Oscar Arias and the Dalai Lama.
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Being bilingual produces changes in the anatomy of the brain, scientists said on Wednesday in finding that could explain why children are so much better than adults at mastering a second language.
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It may be that when adults talk to babies, they use a language that is universally understood.
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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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Deaf people who use sign language could soon be using video phones to make calls.
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NEW YORK  - Children with hearing problems,  even minimal, are significantly more likely to have academic  problems, experts said Thursday.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Jazmina Bojorge arrived at Managua's Fernando VÃÂ©lez Paiz Hospital on a Tuesday evening, nearly five months pregnant and racked with fever and abdominal pain. By the following Thursday morning, both the pretty 18-year-old and the female fetus in her womb were dead.
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I don't speak Arabic, but I do speak the universal language of boy.
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By FRAZIER MOORE  NEW YORK - With a ceremonial pressing of a button Monday, the new Spanish-language network V-me hit the air.
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Language tensions overshadow the new school year in Moldova's breakaway Trans-dniester region.
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An increasing number of American parents want their children to be bilingual if not multilingual.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador  - Nicaraguan President-elect Daniel Ortega said on Wednesday he would revive health, literacy and agriculture programs that he made successful when his left-wing Sandinistas ruled in the 1980s.
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A dozen blind students from across the United States are at a summer camp this week working on a project most don't associate with the visually impaired &#151; launching a NASA rocket.
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Multi-function phones, webcams and other new technological innovations have transformed the lives of the hard of hearing, delegates at an international congress of the deaf said Tuesday.
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HANOVER - A five-week American Sign Language course will be offered at the Cardinal Cushing School in Hanover on Tuesday evenings, starting June 5.  This beginner level class, from 6 to 8 p.m., teaches the fundamentals of sign language with an emphasis on cultural content.