There is only one sign language translator for every 3,000 deaf people in Hong Kong. New course at Chinese University hopes to help city’s hard of hearing

With only 50 sign language translators in the Hong Kong, about 155,000 deaf people in the city have spent a lifetime learning to do what could not be more unnatural: pretending to hear well. Chinese University is hoping to put an end to that. The school’s department of linguistics and modern languages is offering Asia’s first two-year top up degree programme in bimodal bilingual studies, to help students become fully conversant in sign language.   Professor Gladys Tang Wai-lan...