Sign Language

Was reading an article from the Guardian on a young girl who is deaf, she has got a petition going on Facebook as she wants sign language to be taught in schools.
I think this is a good idea - as she says, just doing a daily shop is difficult for her ........

Re: Sign Language

Well we teach other languages many of will never need so I would certainly think this very useful language should be taught as you never know when it will be of help.

Is there a petition not on face book because I would like to sign but am not a member.

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Unfortunately not - she should get a good few on there though
Her name is Jade Chapman

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Found her petition on change, here is the link https://www.change.org/p/schools-and...sored_donation

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Good idea.
I don't have a problem but have often thought how useful it might be if people could sign but is there a universal sign language that can overcome different languages ?

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No American signing is different to ours and I believe their are at least two ways of signing in this country.

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There is one universal sign that overcomes all languges!

Being serious, it would be a good idea to teach it to all. Very useable in a lot of circumstances.

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It’s a good idea as long as it’s not made compulsory, and children learn much quicker than adults. I had an old deaf and dumb mate (he passed on now God rest him) and he was forever trying to get me to learn sign language, I tried for a while then got to lazy to bother, but we had great conversations in the pub, he was like a light on the old paper pad.
We had compulsory Irish language learning over here when I was a lad and it was a waste of time, everyone hated having to learn it, they stopped pushing it and now everyone wants to learn it, funny old world eh?

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Your mention of having to learn Irish reminds me of something I was told by a posh woman at a party. She said that the best way to stop school kids from smoking was to have a weekly compulsory smoking class. They would soon start bunking off.

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Thanks Julie