<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Dear Gladys</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.363636016845703px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Here is my signature <br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, May 23, 2014 5:18 AM, Gladys Tang <gtang@CUHK.EDU.HK> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4862483516"><div><span style="font-size:14px;">Dear all,</span><div><span style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px;">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 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. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: monospace;"><br></span></div><div><font face="monospace"><span style="font-size:14px;">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 support our appeal, kindly sign the reply slip and return it to us by 26 May, 2014. </span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;">If you want to write a letter of appeal directly to support our movement, you are most welcome to do so. We can submit your letter to EDB at a later stage. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span
style="font-family: monospace;">Thanks in advance for your support!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"></span></div></div></div><br><div id="yiv4862483516"><div><div><span style="font-size:14px;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">Gladys Tang</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">Director, Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">The Chinese University of Hong Kong</span></span></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>