BA (Hons) Applied Sign Language Studies and Bachelors Preparatory Programme (Deaf Students) programme is the outcome of a collaboration between Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India and The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), UK following an agreement signed by the Prime Ministers of India and UK for a UK India Educational Research Initiative Scheme (UKIERI). Both the universities have been awarded the project of educating and training students with speech and hearing impairment.
Silence of words translates into SIGNS as the horizon comes alive with positive signs of assimilation into a programme for Deaf students. Deaf studies activities is transdisciplinary but it has focal points in sociolinguistics, in cultural sociology and in disability studies. A summary can be drawn up to explain the aims:
- Access to learning through Sign Language.
- Development of signing and academic skills at par with international scholarly levels.
- Creating a harmonious atmosphere and interactive cosmopolitan base for students in the college campus.
- To bring out more confident participants in the mainstream of social and cultural affairs.
- Generating a wealth of human resources capable of finding a place for themselves in the wider world in the years to come.
- Myriad avenues to explore and select subjects based on aptitude and performance.
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