A lot of people approached us wanting to learn the
sign language so that they could communicate with their loved ones who are deaf or hearing impaired.
TVB shall provide on its integrated English channel (viz the Pearl Channel)
sign language interpretation and traditional Chinese subtitles for a comprehensive news programme in Cantonese of not less than 15 minutes each day between 6pm and midnight (the News Programme);
The National Policy on Disability for Sri Lanka acknowledges
Sign Language as the language of communication for all individuals suffering from a severe loss of hearing or deafness.
For both hearing and deaf children,
sign language gives a head start in language learning, and can lead to higher achievement in measures of intelligence, academic and social development.
One of the means of providing interactivity to the learning of Malaysian
Sign Language is by incorporating animation in the learning application.
Sign language is the echo of the deaf and mute internal voice, and the echo of our internal and external voice.
The session is being organized by Mariam Hudood, mother of two deaf children who strongly feels that promoting
sign language in Arabic will help normal people to communicate better with those not as fortunate and encourage everyone to learn it.
Bedour Al Raqbani, founder of Kalimati, a speech and communication centre, is promoting the Emirati
sign language and encourages everyone to learn it and has involved international support for this initiative.
They need to have
sign language in hospitals and ROP.
The intergenerational transmission of the
sign language is taking place only in a few communities.
Sign language research, uses and practices; crossing views on theoretical and applied
sign language linguistics.
In fact, Zurich, since 2005 (1), is the only German speaking canton in Switzerland where
sign language, in particular the Swiss German
Sign Language (Schweizerdeutsche Gebardensprache, DSGS) (2), is officially recognised, with a statement of inclusion of
sign language in the constitution (Kanton Zurich, 2005, Art.
