This important new document, now translated into BSL, sets out to describe the current status of sign bilingual education. It replaces and revises the original aspirational 1998 document ‘Sign Bilingualism: a Model’ developed by Miranda Pickersgill and Susan Gregory, which was endorsed by many schools, services, universities and individuals and used as a policy reference document for sign bilingual education since that time. This new working document comes in response to the fact that sign bilingual education has evolved over the last 10 years as practice has developed and the educational context has changed. There have been significant and diverse changes in deaf education such as developments in sign language teaching and research and a steady increase in the number of profoundly deaf children with cochlear implants. The document draws on current practice both in the UK and internationally and also looks at relevant UK research.
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