future skills courses in HSL to be offered for university credit satisfying second language
requirements; however, it will take a considerably long period of time before the skills courses for
credit can be offered.
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Reprints from
All Over the Place
See how learning sign language is so important if a doctor / nurse /
medic encounters a Deaf patient
Published on May 3, 2017
https://www.facebook.com/tunisie.deaf.2017/videos/417995751897974/
Deaf grandmother teaches 9-week-old Deaf baby sign language
Published on April 18, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7IlnTG7wzk
Babies are language sponges – even with sign language
Published on June 13, 2016
https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/visualperception.jsp
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