Judy Shepard-Kegl

Judy Shepard-Kegl is an American linguist and full professor, best known for her research on the Nicaraguan sign language. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1985, has worked and written extensively within her field and is best known for her work and multiple academic publishings on the Nicaraguan Sign Language (or ISN, Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua or Idioma de Signos Nicaragüense), a sign language spontaneously developed by deaf children in a number of schools in western Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s.

Judy Kegl
Born (1953-06-20) June 20, 1953
Evergreen Park, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLinguist, full professor
Academic background
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Southern Maine
Notable worksNicaraguan sign language

Shepard-Kegl is currently a tenured professor of Linguistics and coordinator of the ASL/English Interpreting Program at the University of Southern Maine.


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