This May, Pitt’s Comparative Sign Language global experience took off to Edinburgh, Scotland, with 15 students and two faculty members.
The two-week program was “voice-off” — no spoken English — creating a rare opportunity for students to expand their linguistic and cultural fluency in a multilingual signed environment. Students relied instead on their background of American Sign Language (ASL) and engaging deeply with British Sign Language (BSL), the primary language of the host country.
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