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Making Silence Speak

Sep 01, 2025 2 mins read
Making Silence Speak

August 28, at exactly 5:30 pm, the door creaks open. A participant slips into a classroom at Changangkha Middle Secondary School — Bhutan’s first inclusive school. She bursts in laughing: “On the dot.” The words are spoken, not signed. For now. Like everyone else in the circle, she has come to learn Bhutanese Sign Language (BhSL).

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