1, NaCSA brought in a team of sign-language specialists from Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.

2, It's not a full-blown language like american sign-language or langue des signes quebecoise but it's a language nonetheless, with words and syntax and phonology.

3, There is, of course, more to the sign-language lobby's argument than league table rivalry.

4, Language teaching in deaf schools has experienced controversies between oral language teaching and sign-language teaching, which influences teaching models of LRC for hearing-handicapped children.

5, One orangutan named Chantek did just that in a sign-language study undertaken by anthropologist Lyn Miles at the University of Tennessee .

6, She explains: "It is now a common perception that deafness also means speechlessness, which is due to sign-language teaching."

7, Students receive daily classes that provide the same lessons as standard, state-run schools, but using sign-language.