A Language at Its Genesis - Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl's work to document the process. - http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/linguistics/examples.jsp
Evolution: Birth of a Language - Background information focusing on the emergence of language, and a video from the PBS show. - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/2/l_072_04.html
Birth Of A Language - Article and video from "60 Minutes" about the development of the language. - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/04/25/60II/main188527.shtml
Gallaudet University Press News - Includes an article about the development of NSL. - http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/enewsletter4alt.html
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. - http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991024mag-sign-language.html
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. - http://www.signwriting.org/nicaragua/nicaragua.html
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. - http://cgi-user.brown.edu/Administration/Brown_Alumni_Magazine/98/3-98/features/portrait.html
Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc. - University of Maine research effort. Descriptions of study projects, schools at Bluefields and Condega, publications list, and staff resumes. - http://www.unet.maine.edu/courses/NSLP/