Sign languages taught in primary/elementary & secondary/high schools?

[Terry Janzen]

Adam, 

ASL is taught as a language in high schools in a number of cities in Canada
for credit. Some folks who may be sources of information for that are Len
Mitchell (Winnipeg) and Linda Cundy (Edmonton). I¹ll find out more and send
to you directly. 

Cheers,
Terry


On 11-03-31 10:13 PM, "Adam Schembri" <a.schembri at latrobe.edu.au> wrote:

> 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?
> 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)?
> Thanks,
> Adam

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