Creating a unified system to ensure Ireland’s Deaf community learn the same sign language.<\/p>\n
A committee of the National Association for the Deaf<\/a> led by Sister Nicholas Griffey, has worked out a unified sign language<\/a> system for the Deaf. All Deaf people will be taught the same sign language in future. Up to now, the boys learned one form and girls another.<\/p>\n This has created many problems for the Deaf themselves, for social workers, for chaplains.<\/p>\n It was decided that an effort should be made to bring the two systems together. The greater part of this work has been done by a group of Deaf people.<\/p>\n They are educated adult Deaf people who are using sign language, they’ve come together and they have amalgamated the signs.<\/p>\n The new unified code brings together the best of the old signs and some new ones. Sister Nicholas thinks the unity is a great step forward, not least because it is being done by the Deaf themselves.<\/p>\n In England there are three or four sets of signs. Northern Ireland will continue to use a system that is used in parts of Britain but,<\/p>\n At least the 26 counties will be united and such a small country I think we should have one set.<\/p>\n Arrangements are being made to coach the Deaf on a countrywide basis.<\/p>\n An RT\u00c9 News report broadcast on 29 June 1976. The reporter is M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 Briain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Creating a unified system to ensure Ireland’s Deaf community learn the same sign language. A committee of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[224124,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-526488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-deaf","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}