Sign Language Week

Motion Text

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.