Communication

Communicating with deaf people does not pose as many problems as a lot of people think. Once the barrier of speech has been overcome most hearing...

One of the hardest things for non speakers of British Sign Language to grasp is how to convey emotion when using the language. It is easy to see how...

After sign language lip reading is one of the most common ways for deaf people to communicate. The obvious problem with lip reading is that it is not...

Tanya has been deaf from birth and grew up using sign language. Her whole family could communicate via sign language as well, so life at home was...

Children based in Nicaragua have developed a new type of sign language over the past 30 years. The children who have helped create this new...

It becomes more difficult for public services to be delivered in sign language because so many times when there are public services which are...

Introducing signed language to the workplace not only demonstrates committment from employers but also ensures effective communication and safety in...

It is not only those who have lost their ability to hear that use signs and signed languages to communicate as many people who have perfect...

Schoolchildren are taught from an early age that learning a language at school may well stand them in good stead when they enter the world of work....

Foreign languages have always been able to be learnt by using tapes and other audio equipment. This relatively low tech equipment meant that those...

Spoken languages had to evolve into written ones at some point, so there must be a sensible way of making a signed language into one which can be...