SA Sign Language recognised as a home language for education
South African Sign Language (SASL) has been officially recognised as a home language in the country’s education system. "It is a source of great elation for all in the education sector that SASL is finally being recognised as part of the overt curriculum — as it always should have been‚" said Umalusi (Quality Council for General and Further Education and Training) spokesperson Lucky Ditaunyane. "Deaf learners in SA no longer need to feel like foreigners in their own land‚ and at last they can exercise their rights to be taught and assessed in their own language," he said. "This may be a bigger step than many people realise‚ for in recognising SASL as a home language in our education system‚ the system is, by implication, recognising deaf culture as a fundamental part of South African culture." On Friday, Umalusi released a report of its research study on the inclusion of SASL in the curriculum as one of the examinable subjects for the National Senior Certificate. The aim of the stud...
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