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SLED's Vision

SLED's vision is to see all of South Africa's Deaf children achieving their full potential.

SLED's main objective is to facilitate the Deaf child's equal & democratic right to literacy & learning through the promotion of South African Sign Language. 

SLED's aims are to:

• Promote South African Sign Language (SASL) as a language of learning and teaching (LOLT)

• Ensure that SASL is recognised and respected as one of the Language Learning Areas in the curricula for basic and higher education in South Africa.

• Provide nationally accredited training to teachers of Deaf earners in SASL skills and appropriate teaching skills

• Facilitate the natural acquisition of South African Sign Language literacy by Deaf learners

• Encourage the development of written literacy skills by utilising SASL literacy skills of Deaf learners

• Produce high quality SASL/English learning and teaching materials

• Empower Deaf adults to work in educational settings as educators, specialists, mentors, facilitators, and teaching assistants

• Promote early intervention for young Deaf children, their families and their caregivers

• Make certain that empowered Deaf people play a continuous and integral part in all developments and policies regarding their education and language.

• Affirm that the education of Deaf people is recognised as being the concern and joint responsibility of the broader community, families of the Deaf and primarily Deaf people themselves.