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Sign Language is the Most Powerful Language: Here’s Why

Vida Valentina Paz
4 min readAug 13, 2020

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Growing up in an extensive 3rd generation deaf family with my six other deaf sisters and brothers is the best experience I ever had. Still, as the 5th child, I was the one who had always seen the world through different eyes, and although I was able to communicate between the deaf and the hearing world I always noticed that there is something special is missing in interacting with humanity.

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW NOW

I have been carrying it with me since childhood how multicolored the playground we are living in would be when everyone could express themselves through more body language and gestures and able to exchange with fewer words instead? Body language already shapes the hearing world’s interactions with each other when in person, but adding sign language would be a TOTAL game-changer.

How easy can it be for everyone to develop and form a relationship with every person around the globe with lovable gestures and lack of harsh words?

The core of my message is to fill the communication gap between both worlds and create a tolerant culture competence on both sides.

THE MEANING OF SIGN LANGUAGE

What is sign language? It is an idiom that is practiced by people who are having hearing loss or are deaf through using the…

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Vida Valentina Paz
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