Right to use sign language in educational programmes

Elizabeth Moore
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/ #206 An Impossible Ban

2010-09-23 08:13

Next time a teacher says, 'Put up your hand...'  Well, if sign language is banned in educational programmes they won't be able to.  Instead, the students will just have to shout out their answers, all at the same time.  Sign language, even in rudimentary expressions, is univeral, invaluable, and indispensible.  When it is developed to the same sophisticated level as spoken language, it shows humanty's breadth of skill and adaptation.  We all need language, and we need the one that is most accessible to us, so that our development and freedom of expression are not restricted.