Work on multi-literacies skills with deaf people, led by the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies in the UK, continues with a newly funded sub-project on South-South Collaboration.  We are working with partners in Uganda, India, and Nepal to create a range of materials, including curricula, teachers’ handbook materials, teaching/learning materials, and best practice examples. The purpose of these materials is to underpin newly-arising profiles for deaf professionals in teaching roles.

By creating Master Trainers from the three partner countries, we aim to equip more students with the skills in multi-literacies that will help them realise their potential in both education and the workplace.

With the project, we move another step forward, namely from ‘deaf-led research’ to ‘deaf-led practice’ in deaf education.  We hope to develop training options, human resources, and bilingual teaching/learning materials  to a point where a further roll-out of innovative ecosystems of learning for deaf sign language users becomes possible.

Trainees from India and Uganda at Shikha (including a visiting parrot)

Playing a game on curriculum development