By FOONG KAH MEI
SUBANG JAYA: Sign language workshop organised by the American Degree Programme (ADP) Community Service Club helped spread the awareness of the disabled community among students in Taylor’s University.
Organising Chairman R. Sai Sathyamantha said, “The disabled community lead a different life from us and many are ignorant to the challenges faced by them.”
Sai hoped through this workshop students would be able to learn to communicate and understand how the disabled community feel.
Sai said although the number of participants were not up to his expectation at a total of 13, the event managed to reach out to students from various schools.
“Besides communicating with the deaf community, students should look at a broader perspective at how learning sign language can benefit us,” he said.
Sai shared learning sign language can test our physical skills in imitating people and make us more observant.
ADP student Au Soung Hui, 22, said, “I never knew there were over 200 different types of sign languages and how different they are from written or spoken languages.”
Au added the workshop has also shown her how capable the deaf can be and that they are not of any lesser value or any less capable than other non-disabled individuals.
School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts student Thye Wen Yi, 18, said, “I feel that it makes the deaf feel better when there are people who knows how to communicate with them using sign language.”
“It makes them feel more accepted in society and therefore I had the interest to learn sign language.” she said.
School of Communication student Hans Leong Zhan Lun, 19, said, “Learning sign language is one of my short term goals which motivated me to join the workshop.”
Leong added the session managed to cover the basics of sign language and the games helped reinforce his memory of what he learnt.
Organising Chairman R. Sai Sathyamantha said, “The disabled community lead a different life from us and many are ignorant to the challenges faced by them.”
Sai hoped through this workshop students would be able to learn to communicate and understand how the disabled community feel.
Sai said although the number of participants were not up to his expectation at a total of 13, the event managed to reach out to students from various schools.
“Besides communicating with the deaf community, students should look at a broader perspective at how learning sign language can benefit us,” he said.
Sai shared learning sign language can test our physical skills in imitating people and make us more observant.
ADP student Au Soung Hui, 22, said, “I never knew there were over 200 different types of sign languages and how different they are from written or spoken languages.”
Au added the workshop has also shown her how capable the deaf can be and that they are not of any lesser value or any less capable than other non-disabled individuals.
School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts student Thye Wen Yi, 18, said, “I feel that it makes the deaf feel better when there are people who knows how to communicate with them using sign language.”
“It makes them feel more accepted in society and therefore I had the interest to learn sign language.” she said.
School of Communication student Hans Leong Zhan Lun, 19, said, “Learning sign language is one of my short term goals which motivated me to join the workshop.”
Leong added the session managed to cover the basics of sign language and the games helped reinforce his memory of what he learnt.