Judy Shepard-Kegl
Judy Shepard-Kegl is an American linguist and full professor, best known for her research on the Nicaraguan sign language. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, has worked and written extensively within her field and is best known for her work and multiple academic publishings on the Nicaraguan Sign Language, a sign language spontaneously developed by deaf children in a number of schools in western Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s.
Shepard-Kegl is currently a tenured professor of Linguistics and coordinator of the ASL/English Interpreting Program at the University of Southern Maine.
