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Growing interest also may have been spurred by showings from federally funded research that children can benefit from learning sign language while there are few – if any – drawbacks.

Ensuring d/Deaf children become bilingual in sign language and English should be a key priority for policymakers and teachers because this plays an important role in their education, a new study says.