Sign language boost
Research on the complex sign language that deaf New Zealanders have created could push education authorities to recognise the language’s authenticity.
It has taken an American linguist — Marianne Collins-Ahlgren — to document the distinctive language.
Ms Collins-Ahlgren was in New Zealand to receive her doctorate from Victoria University last week.
She first came to Wellington in 1982 with her diplomat husband.
She had studied how children in other countries acquired sign language, but was told deaf New Zealanders did not have a sign language.
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