For education
Every student can follow.
A Deaf student arrives at school. The timetable is written. The exam rules are written. The notices are written. The student can see all of it, and may not follow it as easily as their classmates do.
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This page in sign language
For schools, colleges and universities. International Sign for the global site; your national sign language on your country page. Signed by a Deaf creator, credited by name.
The problem, in your words
Most school information is written.
In plain words
Many Deaf students do not read the school's written language as easily as their classmates. That is about how they were taught, not about what they can do. Sign language can reach them at once.
A notice can be public, and still not be understood.
In the United States, across three decades of national testing, the median reading score of deaf and hard-of-hearing students never rose above a fourth-grade level.
Receipt: Qi & Mitchell, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 17(1) (2012); Traxler (2000)
The World Federation of the Deaf estimates that as much as 90% of the world's Deaf children and adults have never been to school. Its 93-country survey found that only 23 countries provide bilingual education in sign language and the national language, and then only in some schools.
Receipt: Haualand & Allen, Deaf People and Human Rights, WFD (2009)
What your school gets
Your school, three ways.
Written
A student points a phone at a timetable, a notice or a form. It opens in sign language, as audio or in easy words. The student chooses.
Here
A campus can open in access.place as a place. A Deaf guide tells its story in sign language, so a new student knows where to go.
Made by people
Every signer is a real Deaf creator, credited by name. Your Deaf students and your Deaf club can help check what goes out. There are no signing avatars.
A recorded signed version does not replace a live interpreter in class. It covers the information that is the same for everyone, so your interpreters go where only a person will do.
Moments in a school day
Six things students read alone.
The timetable
What happens. A grid in writing.
What changes. The same timetable in plain words and in sign language.
The exam rules
What happens. A long page of conditions.
What changes. The rules in sign language and in plain words.
School notices
What happens. A message on a board or on a platform.
What changes. A short signed version.
Campus signs
What happens. Room numbers, directions and warnings.
What changes. A code on the sign that opens it in sign language, as audio or in easy words.
Forms for families
What happens. Written in the school’s language.
What changes. A signed version and a plain-words version.
The announcement
What happens. A message over a speaker.
What changes. Text and a signed version at the same time.
See it
A school notice, in sign language
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A school notice, in sign language
A short demonstration is being made with a Deaf creator. It shows a timetable and a school notice, read in sign language, as audio and in easy words.
A quick self-check
Can every student follow?
Six questions. Answer for your school today.
Next step
Choose one thing students read. We will build it with you.
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