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Position paper
Position Paper on the Right to Choose Sign Language Interpretation
March 3, 2025
Position Paper on the Right to Sign Language for Families/Carers of Deaf Children
May 19, 2024
Key points Introduction The World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) is concerned that the right to sign language is recurrently…
Position Paper on the Social Inclusion of Deaf People with Intellectual Disabilities
May 19, 2023
Key points Aim Target Group Background One in five individuals who are deaf at birth is also affected by intellectual…
Position Paper on the primacy of deaf people in the development and teaching of national sign languages
March 19, 2023
Key points Introduction The World Federation of the Deaf is concerned about reports from countries around the world highlighting where…
Position Paper on Access to National Sign Languages as a Health Need
March 19, 2022
Key points: There is growing evidence for the critical role of national sign languages in ensuring deaf people’s optimal mental,…
Position Paper on Accessibility: Sign Language Interpreting and translation and technological developments
February 16, 2019
Position Paper on Inclusive Education
June 7, 2018
Position Paper on Deaf Communities as linguistic identity or disability
May 19, 2018
Complementary or Diametrically opposed: Situating Deaf Communities within ‘disability’ vs ‘cultural and linguistic minority’ constructs
May 16, 2018
Position paper on the Language Rights of Deaf Children
September 16, 2016
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