<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>In Italy, there is a grammar school in Cossato (near Biella in Piedmont) where sign language is taught both to hearing and to deaf children.</div><div><br></div><div>You can contact <a href="mailto:alessandra.battagin@gmail.com">alessandra.battagin@gmail.com</a> (Alessandra Battagin) for more info.</div><div><br></div><div>Ciao,</div><div><br></div><div>sandro</div><br><div><div>Il giorno 01/apr/11, alle ore 05:13, Adam Schembri ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>A colleague is preparing a response to a recent Australian government paper on teaching languages other than English in primary and secondary schools here which lists a range of spoken languages as 'priority languages' for teaching, but does not list Auslan among those languages (a change from a former government language policy in which it was included as a 'prority language'). She asked me to ask colleagues on the SLLING-L: is/are your national sign language(s) taught to hearing children in primary/elementary and secondary/high schools in your country?</div><div>Does anyone know where my colleague can obtain information about sign language instruction in schools in other countries (NB: we are not looking for information about the use of sign language as a language of instruction in schools/units/programmes for deaf children)?</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Adam</div><div> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">-- <br> </span><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Associate Professor Adam Schembri<br> Director, National Institute for Deaf Studies and Sign Language<br> La Trobe University | Melbourne (Bundoora) | Victoria | 3086 | Australia<br> Tel: +61 3 9479 2887 | Fax: +61 3 9479 3074 | <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/nids">www.latrobe.edu.au/nids</a> (under construction)<br> </span></font></font> </div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 24px; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">-------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Alessandro Zucchi</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Dipartimento di Filosofia</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Università degli Studi di Milano</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="mailto:alessandro.zucchi@unimi.it">alessandro.zucchi@unimi.it</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/~zucchi/">http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/~zucchi/</a></span></font></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div></span></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>