A Language at Its Genesis: Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl's work to document the process.A Linguistic Big Bang: 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.Birth Of A Language: Article and video from "60 Minutes" about the development of the language.Children's Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language: Abstract of PhD thesis by Ann Senghas.Evolution: Birth of a Language: Background information focusing on the emergence of language, and a video from the PBS show.Gallaudet University Press News: Includes an article about the development of NSL.Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc.: University of Maine research effort. Descriptions of study projects, schools at Bluefields and Condega, publications list, and staff resumes.SignWriting in Nicaragua: 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.Talking Hands: 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.