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Thank you for the reply deafdyke! Those are good points. I believe that the ASL here in Costa Rica is actually the same. I had heard that ASL was universal, and from my interaction with deaf people I've run into in restaurants here-- they use the same signs. So I think that part is okay...

Thanks for the reply. No, there are no computers and no library. And even if there were computers, I don't think he has the skill to use them. He can't read or write, and he has some mental development limitations. What I am hoping to do is teach him 25 to 100 useful signs. So that he can...

By circumstance, or divine intervention, my husband and I visited a home for mentally disabled adults. It was one of those Costa Rican adventures where we left the house in the morning to get the radiator in the car fixed, and we end up having lunch at a home for some disabled adults. We...