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Fun with Sign and Speech – Early Sign and Speech Development Program
Developing learning packages and providing sign bilingual support to hearing impaired children and to their families
ABOUT
Year Established: 2017
Beneficiaries: Hearing impaired children
| http://slco.org.hk | |
| Long-term aids to hearing impaired children |
SOCIAL ISSUES
- Hong Kong lacks early sign language support for hearing impaired children
- Uncommonness of sign language in the society prevents hearing impaired children from receiving information easily and from learning. It hinders their development
SOCIAL INNOVATION
- Organising the parent-child programme of “Fun with Sign and Speech” to aid oral development and using sign language for hearing impaired children
- Bringing hearing and hearing impaired children into the same class to nurture positive attitudes towards sign language and to socially include them
EXPECTED SOCIAL IMPACT
 | 30 “Fun with Sign and Speech” classes to be organised to support the early development of hearing and hearing impaired children |
 | 125 families with hearing impaired children to learn using both sign and oral languages in their communication |
 | Sign language to be popularised for better social inclusion |
 | Public awareness towards deafness and sign language to be raised |
BUSINESS MODEL
The programme gains revenue from tuition of classes and sales of well-designed sign bilingual learning packages
PROGRAMME CONTENT
“Fun with Sign and Speech” Classes
The parent-child classes emphasise on both sign language and oral inputs, to fortify the early development of children and to improve parenting skills
“Fun with Sign and Speech” Learning Package
The packages consist of illustrated stories, flash cards, parent-child activity plans and videos with sign language