Salvadoran Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas salvadoreña, LESSA) is a language used by the deaf community in El Salvador.
American Sign Language was brought over to El Salvador from the United States by missionaries who set up small communal schools for the deaf.
The government has also created a school for the deaf, teaching by means of their own modified Salvadoran Sign Language.
This is the reason that the deaf community within El Salvador sometimes relies upon both ASL and SSL in a combined form.
About every five years, government-hired teachers make their rounds to all the villages and small communities offering to care for and educate the deaf children.