EDM: Sign Language Week

Sign Language Week

Tabled by Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat) 25 signatures

The motion

That this House celebrates Sign Language Week, held from 16 to 22 March 2026; welcomes this year’s theme entitled United in Sign, celebrating unity, pride, and collective action around sign language; notes the importance of sign as a form of language, heritage and identity for the deaf community; recognises the importance of allyship, for inclusion and visibility; further notes that an estimated 151,000 individuals utilise the language in the UK; and further recognises barriers faced by the deaf community in an oral centred world and the implications of denying deaf children access to sign language resulting in language deprivation.

Signatories (25)