Beatrice and allen gardner taught the chimpanzee washoe to communicate by means of

They educated the chimpanzee washoe to converse by ways of sign language. Washoe was the matriarch of her family and was the first chimpanzee to obtain a human language. Her name sign is made with the fingers of a "W" hand flicking the ear on the similar side. She was baptized for Washoe region Nevada where she is alive with Drs. Allen and Beatrix Gardner up until age five.