Ensuring d/Deaf children become bilingual in sign language and English should be a key priority for policymakers and teachers because this plays an important role in their education, a new study says.

Teach your child to communicate their needs using signs and symbols from Makaton and BSL as used in Something Special and Magic Hands. According to research from The Communication Trust, it is ...

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As a society, we should do more to help the sizeable proportion of the population for whom communication is difficult Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

KERRY ace and school teacher Eilís Lynch led local children in a signed version of Amhrán na bhFiann before their match against Meath. The Kingdom won the encounter by 0-13 to 1-8 but it was the ...

Teach your child to communicate their needs using signs and symbols from Makaton and BSL as used in Something Special and Magic Hands. According to research from The Communication Trust, it is ...