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Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently agreed to amend the constitution to this end. The move will bring to fruition three decades of a struggle to empower the country’s deaf community. An official language has legal status in a state and serves as the language of administration (conducting day-to-day state business). We asked Theo du Plessis, an emeritus professor of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies, for his insights. What was the process leading to sign language becoming an official language? Numerous attem...

Making South African Sign Language official is more symbolic than useful in the lives of a very marginalised community.

After years of advocacy and perseverance, sign language is on the verge of becoming South Africa's 12th official language.

Along with other Hausfeld attorneys speaking at this year’s Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section (attended by over…

The bill would ban the controversial practice of restraining children or putting them in so-called "scream rooms" in all schools that receive federal funding.