The education department should make it mandatory for teachers at schools for the deaf to possess specialist qualifications. It is imperative that deaf teachers are trained to become role models for deaf children and ensure that deaf children access their human rights in a language they understand.
Also of great importance is the establishment of a functional language dispensation that will include professional language services for the deaf as well.
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