Chinese sign language now allowed</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Chinese sign language now allowed"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Chinese,sign,language,now,allowed"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">28-02-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Chinese sign language now allowed</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_J5QehIwabxFfhAyIcBXX_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Hong Kong (The Standard): For the past 50 years, sign language has been actively discouraged, and in some cases banned, from classrooms in China. Despite evidence showing that deaf children are visual learners, and that those who learn sign language perform better in school, educators have insisted they learn to speak so they can blend in with their hearing classmates at public school. <br>Since the 1980s, nearly 1,500 pre-school ``hearing rehabilitation'' centers, run by the quasi-governmental China Disabled People's Federation (CDPF), have fuelled many a parent's dream that hours spent mimicking words will eventually unlock their child's linguistic talent, and release the family from the shadow of disability <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Weekend/GB26Jp01.html " target="blank">www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Weekend/GB26Jp01.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show