User:Shepard-Kegl

Judy Shepard-Kegl is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern Maine, Director of the ASL/English Interpreting Concentration of the Linguistics major, and Director of the Signed Language Research Laboratory. She is linguist and certified sign a language interpreter. She has conducted research on English and a variety of signed Languages. SHe is best known for her discovery and research on the emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language (Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua).