He wanted to make English easier to understand by listeners of VOA broadcasts whose native language was not English.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

Professor Morford says signers are like English learners whose first language uses a different alphabet.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

"The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body.

VOA: special.2010.08.29