2 Western Cape schools to offer Sign Language as matric subject
16 October 2018
South African Sign Language (SASL) will be offered as a matric subject, the Western Cape education department said on Monday.
The department embarked on a three-year South African Sign Language pilot project from 2011 to 2013 to establish SALS as a subject in schools for the deaf.It is the first SASL curriculum worldwide to be implemented at a Grade 12 level."
There are currently only nine schools in the country that will be sitting for the 2018 (NSC) SASL exams," DA spokesperson on social development Lorraine Botha said. "Two schools in the Western Cape, De La Bat School for the Deaf learners in Worcester and Dominican Wittebome's matriculants have the privilege of presenting SASL on home language level at the end of 2018."SASL will be offered as a subject at home language level from Grade 1 to matric.
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