"lenguaje mímico" in English

The first step is to increase the numbers of trained sign-language teachers and interpreters.

Currently though, we have individual state provisions on television programmes in sign language.

The news is now interpreted into sign language in Sweden, as is live TV coverage of important debates in the Riksdag.

The easy part would be to ensure that a minimum number of television programmes are broadcast in sign language.

The European Parliament called for sign language to be officially recognised as an independent language 10 years ago.

This is excellent, of course, but there is scope for many more programmes with signing.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission is fully aware of the significance of sign language for hearing-impaired people.

Sign language interpreters will be provided on the same basis as other interpreters in order to make meetings accessible to the deaf.

I must admit that I myself have not yet learnt sign language, although we Members were offered the opportunity to do so by the European Union of the Deaf.

Sign language

If we were to request the hearing-impaired to make themselves understood in a single common language, then that would obviously be further discrimination.

We can see how alive sign language is when what is being said and done in a television programme is interpreted on a split screen or in a window placed on the screen.

Television companies should be expected as a matter of course to offer sign-language interpretation of political debates and news broadcasts.

At the end of the foreword to the report on sign language, it says that the project will need to be followed up if the results are not to be wasted.

At the end of the foreword to the report on sign language, it says that the project will need to be followed up if the results are not to be wasted.

That is why the Group of the European People's Party appeals to the Commission to fully recognise sign language as an EU language and to prepare a proposal for a directive along these lines.

This study showed that there are considerable differences between Member States as far as the state of development, the availability and the official status of sign language are concerned.

In the coalition agreement of the future new German Government though, there is a sentence which says that it will look at how German sign language could be recognised and given equal treatment.

In the coalition agreement of the future new German Government though, there is a sentence which says that it will look at how German sign language could be recognised and given equal treatment.