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Television presenter and sign language interpreter Lesego Modutle says making SA Sign Language (SASL) South Africa's official 12th language is a dream come true for the deaf community

Modutle hopes that principals, teachers and staff who work at schools for the Deaf will be mandated to learn fluent SASL and be sensitised on how to appropriately teach Deaf children, using SASL as a medium of instruction. She concedes that the move by Ramaphosa to make sign language official lifts hopes that school curriculums for the deaf will be brought to par with mainstream schools to ensure that the education of deaf people is equal to that of hearing people.

Besides learning SASL, Modutle advocates that the country should be more inclusive by ensuring that important places such as schools, banks, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, courtrooms and police stations employ full time SASL interpreters, or at least have them on standby, so that deaf people are able to have full access to these necessities.

 

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