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To: The State Examinations Commission/Department of Education

Make Sign Language (ISL) a Leaving Certificate Subject

Make Irish Sign Language a Junior/Leaving Cert subject.

Why is this important?

I think that if you can learn Russian, Ancient Greek and Latin for your Leaving Cert then you should be able to learn a language that people born here speak as their first language. I also think that it would encourage students to learn Sign Language, even if it is just a non-curricular language that has to be studied outside of school.
If more hearing people could speak sign language, the deaf community wouldn't be so isolated in society.

Updates

2020-03-18 22:07:24 +0000

100 signatures reached

2019-04-04 18:08:22 +0100

50 signatures reached

2018-09-26 21:15:57 +0100

25 signatures reached

2018-09-26 18:29:12 +0100

10 signatures reached