The Senate signed Argentine Sign Language into law

The Senate today approved a project that recognizes Argentine Sign Language (LSA) as a natural and native language throughout the national territory and highlights the importance of its preservation and dissemination, as part of the linguistic heritage and cultural heritage of deaf people. In addition, it guarantees their participation and full inclusion, as well as that of people who, for whatever reason, choose to communicate in that language. According to the initiative, sign language is understood as that which is transmitted in the visuospatial modality and explains that LSA has a complete, complex and distinct grammatical structure from Spanish. The bodies of legitimate consultation on the LSA will be those organizations constituted entirely by deaf people who represent them throughout the territory of the Argentine Republic and that are officially constituted and registered with recognition of the national, provincial and municipal States, the norm provides. The project also empowers the National Government to promote the use of LSA by all people who, for any reason, choose to communicate in that language, with the aim of having effective and full accessibility to social life; Eliminate communication and attitudinal barriers, in order to facilitate access to communication and information.

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