This programme is designed for delegates who want to improve their practical knowledge and understanding of South African Sign Language in order to improve their communicative language skills levels.
This programme is designed for delegates who want to improve their practical knowledge and understanding of South African Sign Language in order to improve their communicative language skills levels.
The programme reflects the need to address the requirements of the disabled community, and government’s requirement for business to employ staff from the disabled community. The programme will teach delegates how to communicate effectively with the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
The motivation for offering this programme is to assist delegates to achieve an appropriate level of language proficiency in South African Sign Language, which will allow delegates to communicate with the Deaf community.
How you will benefit:
Demonstrate an ability to communicate with the South African Deaf community successfully
Develop communication skills using South African Sign Language to be able to communicate and understand more complex concepts such as conveying emotions and abstract concepts using South African Sign Language
Demonstrate an understanding of the Deaf Culture within South Africa
Key focus areas:
Introduction to South African Sign Language
Everyday communicative language
Possession and referral signs
Rules of communication with deaf people
Parameters of signs
Personal, social, general and experiences
Who should Attend:
Delegates interested in learning Sign Language across all sectors and communities in South Africa, or who wish to improve their South African Sign Language skills
Entrance Requirements:
No prior learning or experience is required
UKZN Extended Learning is committed to enrichment through lifelong learning, by providing high quality credit and non-credit bearing short courses and academic programmes in collaboration with the schools and colleges of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Upon finishing this course, participants will gain insights into Deaf culture and learn effective ways to interact with Deaf individuals. They will become proficient in identifying South African Sign Language (SASL)
South African Sign Language workshop is offered by SLED. Workshops for teachers and teaching assistants in teaching South African Sign Language literature (stories, poems etc). Workshops are dynamic and include direct engagement with the SASL text and classroom based options.
South African Sign Language (SASL) is the primary sign language used by deaf people in South Africa. SASL is not entirely uniform and continues to evolve. Due to the geographical spread of its users and past educational policies, there are localised dialects of SASL and signs with many variants.
Learn to communicate and understand Deaf and hard of hearing people through the use of SASL.
Learn to communicate and understand Deaf and hard of hearing people through the use of SASL SASL is a valuable language. South Africa needs more people who are fluent users of SASL and have an appreciation of Deaf culture.
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