Submitted on Thursday 22nd September 2016
Rejected on Friday 23rd September 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Introduce sign language into the National Curriculum
When one starts suffering from severe hearing loss, only then for vast majority's do people then start to learn sign language, which soon be there only form of communication. Yet, if not learnt in time may lead to more isolation, yet if it was implemented into the curriculum, it would seize forever.
More than 11 million people have a form of hearing loss
Estimated- by 2035 there will be 15.6 million people with hearing loss
More than 900,000 people are severely/profoundly deaf.
More than 45,000 deaf children, experience temporary hearing loss.
More than 70% of 70 years-old & 40% of over 50 years-old have hearing loss.
24,000 people use sign language as their main language
6.7 million people benefit from hearing aids.
Ten year average to address hearing loss.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131222
The Government have also responded to the above petition, and have outlined whether they plan to include British Sign Language in the national curriculum.
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