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The Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce the 2021 International Talk Series to celebrate its 15th anniversary of establishing an innovative, inclusive education model for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) and hearing children in Hong Kong - Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment Education Programme (The SLCO Programme). The Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies is honoured by the speakers from Australia, Austria, Germany, China (Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, Quzhou), The Netherlands and the United States. They will share the educational philosophy and practices of co-enrolment education in their countries and discuss its positive impacts on the development of DHH and hearing children and challenges. The talk series will go online on 11, 14 & 16 December 2021. For details of the talk series, please visit http://www.cslds.org/slcotalks2021/en/. For registration, please click on the link:https://bit.ly/3oUwgWQ . |
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聾人和弱聽學生學習上有甚麼困難？
戴助聽器和看口型對聾人有多少幫助？
手語是否等於動作？
透過有趣的互動活動，除了解答以上的疑惑，同時也學到手語並不是聾人獨有的語言，其實任何人都可以用，而且運用在教育和溝通上，健聽和聾人都會有得着。最後還有學手語的環節，内容十分豐富。
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 | Deaf and hearing students from the SLCO Programme participated in Triple A Volunteers Annual Concert for fundraising of the Programme. They presented music and performance in various ways, including adding different visual elements, sign interpretation, tactile sensation, vibration and so on, in order to enable both the Deaf and Hearing to enjoy the concert. |
 | Deaf and hearing students of Kowloon Bay St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School and Notre Dame College joined the Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band in their annual performance and performed musical pieces using hand bells sign language. Thank you to all teachers, students and the Band who spent a long time preparing and practicing for this wonderful event. |
 | Thanks to the support of the U.S. Consulate General for Hong Kong and Macau, the Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies is honored to invite three distinguished scholars in the field of Neurolinguistics and Deaf Education - Dr. David Corina (University of California - Davis), Dr. Christopher Kurz (Rochester Institute of Technology) and Dr. Susan Lane-Outlaw (Metro Deaf School – St. Paul, Minnesota) to conduct a series of public seminars on 14 & 15 August 2015 to address how sign language, sign bilingualism and visual learning could benefit children's development in practical education situations, with support from research evidence. |
| Do you know? PowerPoint presentations of the 2014 Symposium on Sign Bilingualism and Deaf Education are available for download at the link below. Other than the keynote speeches and invited speeches given by experts in the field, there are also presentations on various results of the "Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme" after 8 years of implementation by the project team. Download Link |
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Project Director Prof. Gladys Tang and Project Manager Mr. Chris Yiu was invited to attend the Annual Meeting and Conference of the Taiwan Communication Disorder Association held in Taiwan on 28 September, 2013. The theme of the conference was "Building an environment with no communication barriers", topics discussed included the pedagogies, researches and services related to the language and communication problems encountered by students with different types of impairment. In the conference, Prof. Gladys Tang was invited to present on the relationship between Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education. There were around 100 participants including scholars and experts in language and communication disorder from Mainland China and Taiwan, teachers, parents, audiologists, speech therapists, sign language interpreters, post-graduate students and representatives of social welfare groups for the disabled. |
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Programme Director Prof. Gladys Tang was invited to give a lecture in the in-service training event of Child Assessment Service (CAS), Department of Health titled "Language Development in Children with Hearing Impairment: from Theory to Practice" on 29 July, 2013. A total of 85 professionals from CAS consisting of a multidisciplinary team of paediatricians, clinical psychologists, speech therapists, audiologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, optometrist, nurses and medical social workers attended the lecture. In the lecture, Prof. Tang talked about the background of sign bilingualism, the language development of deaf children, current researches on sign bilingual acquisition and ways to achieve social integration for deaf children. |
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A research team composed of 10 deaf and hearing researchers, including Prof. Gladys Tang, Prof. Scholastica Lam and 3 researchers from the Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme, participated in Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) Conference 11 during 10-13 July, 2013 in University College London (UCL). TISLR is a renowned international sign language research conferences with researchers from different countries presenting different research topics in sign langauge, including linguistics structures, pragmatics, acquisition, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, etc., The followings are the topics of the poster presentation by the researchers from the Programme:
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An officer from EDB and 7 Curriculum Development Coordinators from mainstream primary schools visited partner school Kowloon Bay St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School on 26 February, 2013. The aim of the visit was mainly to learn more about the Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme. Project Manager Mr. Chris Yiu introduced the Programme and the learning packages to the visitors. Vice-Principal Ms. Ng shared how inclusive practices were implemented in school to support D/hh students. The visitors observed a Mathematics lesson in 5A and met with the Deaf and hearing teachers. All of them had given their written comments on the Programme after the visit, and their feedback was very positive.
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 | Partner school Kowloon Bay St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School was invited to perform a musical titled "A Cry Of Silence" at the 3rd International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia on 31 January 2013 at Sir Run Run Shaw Hall in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Around 600 audiences attended the performance. The musical, starring Deaf and hearing students and teachers of the school, is a story about how two Deaf children who transferred to a school offering sign bilingual and co-enrolment education overcome various problems with the help and support from students and teachers. The performance was very successful and it let audiences know better about how sign bilingual and co-enrolment education could benefit both Deaf and hearing children. We would like to thank Principal Margaret So, Vice-Principal Rebecca Ng, Director Kwok Chi Wai Ray, the crew and all performers once again for their effort in giving such an excellent performance. |
 | A total of 49 Deaf and hearing participants of the 3rd International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia visited both of the Programme's partner schools, Peace Evangelical Centre Kindergarten (Ngau Tau Kok) and Kowloon Bay St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School, in two groups on 29 and 31 January 2013 respectively. Programme Manager Mr. Chris Yiu first introduced the background, idea and development of the Programme, then the visitors were separated in groups to observe classes and activities in co-enrolment classes. The visit ended with a sharing session by teachers and parents. |