Scholarship Students Give and Receive Sign Language Classes

Scholarship Students Give and Receive Sign Language Classes A new initiative of Fundación A. Jean Brugger in 2018 is the Life Skills Program, which was created to provide greater educational opportunities for our scholarship students. An exciting component of this program is the sign language class being taught by our deaf student, Juan Luis Solís. Juan Luis has a Fundación scholarship so he can attend a special high school in Rivas.
His dream is to be a teacher, and this program is allowing him to already realize that dream. Currently three scholarship students are receiving classes from Juan Luis: Ana Odalys Sanchez (computer engineering), Lismadiela Báez (medicine), and Josette Garbanzo (psychology). Each of them take classes twice a month. Juan Luis enjoys teaching his fellow students very much. He says that he likes the classes because his students understand the ideas and learn quickly.
Juan Luis’s students report that they are also enjoying this new learning experience because he has good teaching skills. Ana Odalys said, "I like sign language classes because I will be able to communicate with people with hearing disabilities, I feel that in this way I can show interest in others, and also be able to include them in different activities. Juan Luis is very charismatic and works hard to teach us." Nicaraguan sign language has a fascinating history.
​ It is a language that was created by children in a boarding school for the deaf in Managua in the 1980s, and has its own unique signs. The language is of great interest to linguists because it is a rare opportunity for scientists to observe the emergence and evolution of a new language. Fundación A. Jean Brugger appreciates the efforts of Juan Luis to teach his fellow scholarship students, and we also acknowledge them for their willingness to learn sign language.