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Global Award for CUHK Deaf Education Programme

Date: 18/09/2020

A programme launched by CUHK to help deaf and hard of hearing children learn in regular classroom settings has received the Zero Project 2020 – Innovative Practice Award on Education from the Essl Foundation for its distinguished contributions towards mainstream inclusive education for the deaf.

The Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education (SLCO) programme is led by a team headed by Professor Gladys Tang of CUHK’s Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies of the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language. Through the SLCO programme, deaf and hard of hearing children can learn together with hearing children in a bilingual teaching environment with signed and spoken languages.

Learning sign language helps deaf and hard of hearing children become more articulate by giving them access to classroom information in a bilingual and barrier-free environment. At the same time, hearing students participating in the project have the opportunity to become sign language experts, helping them build empathy and acceptance of the deaf.

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