Sign language: A fundamental right of the HI people
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Prabhat Kishore
Contd from previous issue
Sign language is a naturally evolved language like other oral languages and is considered to be the mother-tounge of the HI people. Like other spoken languages, sign language is also used to convey feelings, thoughts and other information to the recipients. Sign language interprets to translate the oral language into visual-manual language to make HI people to understand the information.
According to Census 2011, there are more than 1.3 million HI people and more than ten million people having hard of hearing in India. As per the WHO report, by 2050 nearly 2.5 billion persons will have some degree of hearing loss and at least 700 million will have to be hearing rehabilitated. Hence, there is need to promote Sign language in various areas for the betterment and upliftment of the HI persons. Once the hearing-able children learn the Sign language, it will make them to intermingle with their HI counterparts which will be useful in the mainstreaming and inclusive education of such students.
Access to information through sign language is a fundamental right of the HI people. (To be contd)
Contd from previous issue
Sign language is a naturally evolved language like other oral languages and is considered to be the mother-tounge of the HI people. Like other spoken languages, sign language is also used to convey feelings, thoughts and other information to the recipients. Sign language interprets to translate the oral language into visual-manual language to make HI people to understand the information.
According to Census 2011, there are more than 1.3 million HI people and more than ten million people having hard of hearing in India. As per the WHO report, by 2050 nearly 2.5 billion persons will have some degree of hearing loss and at least 700 million will have to be hearing rehabilitated. Hence, there is need to promote Sign language in various areas for the betterment and upliftment of the HI persons. Once the hearing-able children learn the Sign language, it will make them to intermingle with their HI counterparts which will be useful in the mainstreaming and inclusive education of such students.
Access to information through sign language is a fundamental right of the HI people. (To be contd)