lsq was developed around 1850 by certain religious communities to help teach children and adolescents in quebec from a situation of language contact. since then, after a period of forced oralism, lsq has become a strong language amongst deaf communities within quebec and across canada. however, due to the glossing of lsq in french and a lack of curriculum within hearing primary and secondary education, there still exist large misconceptions amongst hearing communities about the nature of lsq and sign languages as a whole, which negatively impacts policy making on a larger scale.