Our world is a diverse one that ought to be celebrated. Experts estimate that across the globe there are around 6,500 spoken languages today although around 2,000 of which have less than 1,000 speakers and are dying out. The significance of language cannot be overstated: it is the very means by which we order our thoughts and make sense of…
In the last two decades, there has been a quiet revolution in the way that infants learn language. Citing historical studies about the academic success of hearing children born into deaf families, a sign language interpreter began to teach babies to sign words like “more,” “milk,” “all done,” and “play” in the early 1990s. Babies tend to sign their first…