Arranged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the University of Birmingham, teaching resources designed to make Shakespeare accessible for deaf students are being send to every deaf school and significant deaf unit across the UK.
The Signing Shakespeare project has been active since 2016, with the resources now including a complete scheme of work for teaching Macbeth, as well as filmed scenes from the play performed using British Sign Language by deaf actors, accompanied by relevant handouts.
In a recent article in D&T, one of the creators of the resource told us that ‘A teacher can follow all the suggested exercises or pick and choose what they think would work best with their cohort of students.’
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