Teaching sign language, a necessity for the inclusion of hearing impaired people?

American teacher Brittany Dzugas-Smith teaches sign language at a college in the suburbs of Washington.

© Brittany Dzugas-Smith - personal collection

By: Chantal Lorho Follow

1 min

French sign language was, for a long time, the language of the hearing impaired.

It is spoken today by 150,000 hard of hearing and as many hearing people.  

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It is a language like any other but it is not international because it is different from one country to another.

The LSF option can be chosen since 2010 and as a baccalaureate option since 2018.  

How to develop co-education in the classes to create bridges between the hearing impaired and the hearing impaired?

How to transmit to these children in their natural language?

Does signing with a baby help to understand him or her better?

The idea is starting to germinate in some nurseries.   

 With :

Olivier Marchal

, professor of sign language at the Lycée Varoquaux in Tomblaine and author of

Proverbs and expressions French sign language

(Rue des enfants)

, 

Precise of French sign language for the use of all

(Circonflexe)

and

The French language for dummies

(For Dummies)

Ludivine Rivet

, director of a

crèche Les Petits Chaperons Rouges

in Gennevilliers in the Parisian suburbs 

And a testimony collected by 

Charlie Dupiot. 

In the United States, sign language is taught in some schools.

This has been the case for 3 years in the

Mary Ellen Henderson public college, in Falls Church, in the suburbs of Washington DC

.

The pupils choose this language voluntarily, at the rate of 2 or 3 lessons per week. 

Brittany Dzugas-Smith

is one of two

American Sign Language teachers

at the facility.

She explains to us why her subject has met with some success with college students.

Musical programming: 

► Respect

- Aretha Franklin 

► Mna Nalamagenge 

- Freshlygound, The Soil 

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