16 - 22 March 2026
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These interactive lessons, delivered live on Zoom by experienced BSL tutors, will introduce your team to the basics of BSL and highlight ways to make workplaces more inclusive for Deaf colleagues, customers, and clients.
Full details, including session dates and times, will be confirmed closer to Sign Language Week. By registering your interest now, your organisation will be among the first to receive booking information when registration opens.
No prior BSL experience is required, and anyone in your organisation can take part. These sessions are designed to give participants a solid introduction to BSL, fostering greater awareness and accessibility in the workplace.
BSL will be available soon
We're still making preparations for this year's Sign Language Week and will update the website regularly in the run-up to March. Thank you for your patience.
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SIGN LANGUAGE WEEK 2025
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Sign Language Week holds immense significance for the BDA, particularly this year as we launch our #TakingBSLForward civil rights movement. The week serves as a crucial opportunity to garner support for our mission and act as a platform to launch our 'Early Years’ position statement.
As the 'National Representative Organisation of British Sign Language (BSL) and Irish Sign Language (ISL) in the UK,' our responsibility is to 'Promote, Preserve and Protect' BSL and ISL. Our national sign languages have faced marginalisation for over a century at the hands of the hearing majority—teachers, doctors, politicians—who relentlessly promoted oralism, denying Deaf children access to sign language and resulting in damaging language deprivation.
BSL stands as the fourth most widely used indigenous language in the UK, with an estimated 151,000 individuals utilising the language.
BSL will be available soon
We're still making preparations for this year's Sign Language Week and will update the website regularly in the run-up to March. Thank you for your patience.