David Bar-Tzur
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| Albanian Sign Language) | Organizations | Religion & Deafness |
Sign Languages in Contact. Karin Hoyer examines the case of Albanian Sign Language and its growth from pre- to post-Communist Albania. She suggests that the Hoxha regime did not allow for the development of a community of deaf people who could create a full-fledged sign language over time. Hoyer suggests, rather, that in predemocratic Albania, deaf people relied heavily on fingerspelling, with a few indigenous signs that may have been influenced largely by the emblematic gestures of the ambient hearing culture.
World Federation of the Deaf membership information: Albanian National Association of the Deaf (ANAD). Contact info only.
Barnhart, R. Deaf patients "hear" the Gospel at Albanian Clinic.
