Your support to sign bilingualism in deaf education in HK

[Beppie van den Bogaerde]

Dear Gladys

Here is my contribution. Good luck with these actions, hope you will be successful.

Best regards

Beppie





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Beppie van den Bogaerde
Lector Dovenstudies / Professor of Deaf Studies
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Van: linguists interested in signed languages [SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] namens Gladys Tang [gtang at CUHK.EDU.HK]
Verzonden: vrijdag 23 mei 2014 7:04
Aan: SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
Onderwerp: Your support to sign bilingualism in deaf education in HK

Dear all,

Attached please find a document in which it contains a letter of appeal, a brief summary of the history of sign language in deaf education in HK, and a reply slip (if you are prepared to indicate your support to our efforts to bring HKSL to deaf education in HK).

There will be a Legislative Council meeting on 28th May, 2014 with a special focus on sign bilingualism in deaf education in HK. Not much has been done by the HK Government although they had signed CRPD in 2008. The Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, backed up by a great majority of Deaf organisations, parents associations, research centres, and some Legislative Counsellors, will meet with the officers of the Education Bureau to discuss the introduction of sign bilingualism in both deaf school and mainstream school settings in HK, in compliance with CRPD Article 24. Of course, we are appealing to our HK Government for funding to develop such a system.

Thanks in advance for your support!




Gladys Tang
Director, Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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