It is widely used, and Venezuela has a national bilingual education program for VSL and Spanish, though the language used by adults differs from that of the classroom.
This school hired hearing teachers trained in Spain, who knew Spanish Sign language.
The mingling of the system developed by the students and the language used by the teachers seems to be the origin of what is today VSL.
The influence of the signs brought by Arquero further transformed VSL, according to recollections collected from people involved in that period of the Association.
In addition, as a result of studies on the grammar of LSV, there has also been research into the psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics of the Deaf community in the country.