The National Association of the Deaf in Lesotho (NADL) is currently holding a sign language workshop for Service Providers in Mafeteng.

The Secretary General of the association Miss.Likopo Lesoetsa said teachers as service providers will be enlighted on how to use sign language to teach children with hearing disability. She said it has come to the realisation of the association that in regular primary schools, children with the disability have difficulties as they cannot grasp what other children are learning. She expressed hope that this training will break barriers between education service providers and children with disability.

The workshop that started on the January 8th will end on the 19th and it is attended by 37 participants who include teachers, parents of the children with disability, members of Correctional Services and Lesotho Mounted Police Service. Similar trainings had been held in the district of Leribe last year.

NADL was established in 1992 with the purpose to protect the rights of people with hearing disability and also to teach them sign language.

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