Learning Outcomes

Upon completing the programme, students will:

1. Achieve a new understanding of how knowledge of language is organized and transmitted through the visual-spatial modality, as opposed to spoken languages, organized and transmitted in fundamentally different ways;
   
   
2. Appreciate how this new understanding can potentially transform the society’s perception about sign language, giving it a linguistic status that is equal to spoken languages;
   
   
3. Be able to evaluate critically the development of bimodal bilingualism in society from the perspective of information accessibility and effective communication in domains of education, social and public communication, child care, counselling and clinical services; and
   
   
4. Be proficient in spoken and sign languages in order to undertake responsibilities in professional settings which call for such linguistic skills.