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South African Sign Language Sasl

South African Centre for Digital Language ResourcesRef: https://sadilar.org/en/south-african-sign-language-sasl/

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Source domain: sadilar.org

Collected on 28 July 2026

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What this means

This document is a webpage-style announcement for a South African Sign Language (SASL) dissemination event hosted by SADiLaR. It states the event date (29 May 2026) and venue (CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria), and describes the purpose of promoting inclusion of SASL in digital spaces. It lists livestream details and multiple presentations by named academics and organisations, plus several reports and resources that were highlighted or produced for the event.

Facts

Places

City of Tshwane, Gauteng, Stellenbosch Local Municipality, Western Cape

Reference

https://sadilar.org/en/south-african-sign-language-sasl/

Key Takeaways

  • Event: South African Sign Language Dissemination event
  • Date: 29 May 2026
  • Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria
  • Hosted by: SADiLaR in collaboration with the Child Language Development Node at Stellenbosch University
  • Livestream recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9CbjXHQvvQ
  • SASL recognised as South Africa’s 12th official language
  • Presentations include: planned SASL sign bank, Deaf Education Annotation Framework (DEAF), SU-SASL corpus & SASL SignGram, Handlab SASL HL curriculum project, REAH, African Wordnet proof of concept, and a SASL learning management system (LMS)
  • Reports include: African Wordnet proof of concept design; SASL resources inventory as on 18 June 2026; migrating SASL literature from DVD to LMS; stakeholder interview report on developing a sign bank
  • SADiLaR
  • Child Language Development Node (Stellenbosch University)
  • CSIR International Convention Centre
  • Stellenbosch University
  • Prof Heather Brookes
  • Ms Candice Morgan
  • National Institute for the Deaf
  • Mr Dirkie Ebersohn
  • Department of Computer Science, Stellenbosch University
  • Mr Zander Vermeulen
  • Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
  • Prof Kate Huddlestone
  • Handlab project (Stellenbosch University)
  • Ms Ayesha Ramjugernath
  • REAH
  • Ms Sithembile Khwela
  • Dr Michelle J. White
  • Prof Frenette Southwood
  • Ms Marissa Griesel
  • Mr Juan Steyn
  • Candice Morgan
  • Frenette Southwood

Dates

Closing Date

29 May 2026