SOUTH African Sign Language is set to become the country’s 12th official language. Parliament approved a constitutional amendment in a bid to “promote the rights of persons who are deaf (sic) and hard of hearing”. CLAUDINE STORBECK, Professor and Founder of the Wits Centre for Deaf Studies, University of the Witwatersrand Claudine Storbeck, founder and director of the Wits Centre for Deaf Studies at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand, explains what the move could – and should – mean for Deaf education in the country. What is the educational environment today for Deaf learners in South Africa? There are…