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Jeff McWhinney was born in 1960 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is a leader in the UK deaf community. == Early Life == McWhinney was born into a Deaf family in Belfast, both his brother and sister are Deaf. His family did not escape the pain of The Troubles in Northern Ireland when loyalists killed his cousin because she married a Roman Catholic. McWhinney was raised in a bilingual environment, his family who used both Northern Ireland Sign Language (NISL) and English. He came to pick up Irish Sign Language (ISL) from the community. He later learned to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL), French Sign Language (LSF), and British Sign Language (BSL). He was educated at the Jordanstown Schools in Belfast, where there was a teacher who also taught his father. He then went to Mary Hare Grammar School for the Deaf in the 1970s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeff McWhinney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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