Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: Guinea-Bissau (Guiné-Bissau)

Created 10 April 2000, links updated monthly with the help of LinkAlarm.

Guinea-Bissau flag David Bar-TzurGuinea-Bissau flag

map of Guinea-Bissau

Flag: World flag database.
Map: Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.

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Deaf education & youth Guiné-Bissau Sign Language

Deaf education & youth

NDCS. (2006, January 30). Sign language development in Guinea Bissau. In January 2005, Mr José Augusto Lopes, a representative from AGRICE visited the Portuguese Deaf Association (APS) to ask for help concerning the education of 97 deaf children attending the only school for deaf children in Guinea Bissau. AGRICE had founded a school for blind children in Bissau in 2003, but around 50 deaf children also requested admission in the first year. This number doubled in the following year.

Guiné-Bissau Sign Language

NDCS. (2006, January 30). Sign language development in Guinea Bissau. In January 2005, Mr José Augusto Lopes, a representative from AGRICE visited the Portuguese Deaf Association (APS) to ask for help concerning the education of 97 deaf children attending the only school for deaf children in Guinea Bissau. AGRICE had founded a school for blind children in Bissau in 2003, but around 50 deaf children also requested admission in the first year. This number doubled in the following year.

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