LAHORE, Pakistan – At a school for the deaf in Pakistan, the faces of students are animated, their smiles mischievous, as their hands twirl in tandem with their sign language teacher.“I have friends, I communicate with them, joke with them, we share our stories with each other about what we have done and not done, we support each other,” said Qurat-ul-Ain, an 18-year-old deaf woman who joined the school a year ago.
Their peers turn their thumbs down for a wrong answer and make the applause sign — twisting hands –- for a correct one. “When I couldn’t understand what he was trying to say he would bang his head against the wall and floor,” the 35-year-old told AFP. His family pushed for him to become educated, helping him to learn the basics of sign language before he received formal coaching.
According to World Federation of the Deaf, 80 percent of the approximately 70 million deaf people in the world have no access to education.
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