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The world of broadcast media offers an increasingly rich source of employment for deaf graduates and professionals worldwide and its importance is evidenced by the proliferation of European deaf television and film festivals. However, research shows that the focus on communication through written English is still a barrier for sign language users across Europe, impacting upon career progression a ...

European deaf people like their hearing counterparts should have equal access to the medium of written English. In each EU country there is a clear deaf community, (Pellet Boodle & Ochre, 2008) with members using the specific Sign Language of that community as their first language. Sign Language in each country is linguistically distinct from the spoken and written language (Woll et al), but wri ...