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Sign Language Week – Spreadthesign

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Sign Language Week began on Monday 16th March and ends on Sunday 22nd March.
This year’s theme is ‘Sign Language for All’.
The “main goal for the week is to show that Sign Language is for everybody, and, is shared and enjoyed by many children, people, families, groups and communities.” http://signlanguageweek.org.uk/

Today we highlight Spreadthesign

Spreadthesign have collected suggestions of signs from different sign languages around the world.

“The site is administered by the non-profit association European Sign Language Centre and the project is an ongoing process. We have collected and documented over 400,000 signs, but much work remains and we are constantly working on quality improvement. We need your help! Do you want to join? Contact us at [email protected]. If you have any ideas or thoughts you wish to share with us, please get in touch. The Spreadthesign Team”