The NZSL Board will fund the development and delivery of a national assessment service from April 2021, with secured funding for the first three years.
TeachSign has developed Curriulum One units for teaching NZSL to students. This project focussed on adapting three units to promote learning NZSL in Māori and Te Reo settings.
The NZSL Board contributed funding to enable four Deaf Studies scholarships offered by VUW. The University was able to offer six scholarships in total.
Twelve more NZSL community projects have been approved for grants from the NZSL Fund, totalling $363,204.23 for the 2018/19 financial year. You can read about the successful recipients here.
In December 2018, Cabinet's Social Wellbeing Committee considered the paper 'Supporting a Bid to Host the World Federation of the Deaf Congress 2023'. Read the Cabinet Committee paper and minute on this page.
The Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern has spotlighted international news site the Daily Moth, sharing news about NZSL week and the use of Sign Language in New Zealand.
The service that allows people using New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) to phone others by using an interpreter will soon be available at weekends, Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media Minister Kris Faafoi and Disability Issues Minister Carmel Sepuloni announced on 8 April 2019.
The New Zealand Sign Language Board has commissioned CreateNZSL to lead work on the important NZSL Level Two Project. The project is expected to be delivered by late 2020.
