Studies on Indigenous Signed and Spoken Languages in Africa

Emmanuel Asonye is a speech and hearing scientist, and a sign linguist. He is the CEO of Indigenous Hands and Voices (IHAV) and Save the Deaf Initiative and Endangered Languages (S-DELI), twin organizations documenting and promoting indigenous signed and spoken languages globally. He is an affiliate member of the World Federation of the Deaf and runs an educational series on YouTube – Indigenous Hands the Indigenous Voices. His research interests include sign language documentation, speech-hearing sciences, early language access, and early intervention programs for deaf children. Mary Edward is a postdoctoral researcher at McMaster University's Department of Linguistics and Languages, Canada. Her research takes a multimodal, multilingual dimension to language, spoken and signed. Her research interests include general linguistics, Deaf culture, sociolinguistics of Deaf communities, discourse analysis, and the cognitive science of language. She has authored, co-authored, and is actively working on various research publications in the fields mentioned above.