Due to the law and policy, deaf people are viewed through the framing of “diversity” and “inclusion”; however, we are in the world in which most of its stuff is designed for hearing people, so how can the hearing society involve the hard of hearing in the daily life situations? This question is commonly found swirling about in the minds of educators and sociologist.
Good communication is the basis to enroll the deaf community with the hearing society. It is necessary to learn sign language (SLG) as it’s a tool that helps to build a communication bridge with the non-hearing community. Furthermore, the SLG does not only include the hard of hearing people, also the SLG involves a hearing society who realizes that the importance of inclusiveness
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Consequently, the university could join the deaf and hearing society interests in order to build new spaces of communication and to provide SLG classes to who are interested in learn it. Taking into account the following needs, the local university of Pereira created a SLG program that helps administrative staff, professors, and students to be involved in sign language contexts; in this way, they will be able to communicate and transfer knowledge to the deaf population belonging to the university.
The following excerpt taken from the participant’s interview support what is being discussed about the need to learn SLG. The participant was inquiring about his/her interest in the learning of