Help NID-National Institute for the Deaf with 100 volunteers for promoting South African Sign Language!
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Help NID-National Institute for the Deaf with 100 volunteers for promoting South African Sign Language!
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Please help NID to promote the use of South African Sign Language! Do this by: 1) Downloading the App; 2) Utilising this resource to communicate in SASL; 3) Share the App with your colleagues, friends, and family. Remember…you are only a click away to help make a difference! NID and the Deaf community are thrilled that SASL has been approved by the Constitutional Review Committee of the South African Parliament to be South Africa’s 12th official language. There is a massive increase in public awareness and resources for SASL. With the wonderful assistance from funders, NID started developing the NID Online SASL Video Dictionary in 2015. This ongoing, ever-expanding resource encompasses the development of the first SASL glossary. The dictionary features SASL variations used at several schools for the Deaf, and Deaf communities across the country, along with the relevant English term. This allows the users to look up different English words, finding the sign, or do a reverse search to look up a sign, finding the correspondent English word. NID is very proud to report that up to date we have produced over 12 000 signs, which includes more than 4 000 signs freely available to the public. This resource is available as an app on all mobile platforms and can also be accessed at www.learnsasl.com. Our dictionary is also supported by the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB).
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