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GP starts special platform to serve hearing, speech impaired

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Published: 12:15, 16 February 2020   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
GP starts special platform to serve hearing, speech impaired

Grameenphone has launched an initiative themed, ‘Kothagulo Hariye Na Jak Shobder Obhabe,’ to inspire all of us to learn sign language and thus enable us to communicate to hearing and speech impaired near and dear ones around us.

In continuation to this effort, Grameenphone launched sign-line digital care dedicated for the operated by the hearing and speech impaired community on Sunday, at The Westin Dhaka.

Through this initiative, Grameenphone has incorporated sign language based digital care service in its official website and its self-service digital care app MyGP. Furthermore, the ‘Kothagulo Hariye Na Jak Shobder Obhabe’ campaign will enable interested members of the community to learn the basics of sign language through a tutorial video by sign language expert Arafat Sultana Lata. Enable them to communicate with their near and dear ones, who are either speech or hearing impaired. Anyone can access this sign language video tutorial from Grameenphone’s official website and YouTube channel.
 
The month of February signifies a month of sacrifice and achievement, with February 21 marking the ultimate sacrifice for the Bangla language and commemorated both locally and globally as ‘International Mother Language Day.’ However, sign language, the primary medium of communication used by the hearing and speech impaired lacks the validation it deserves, and the initiative taken by Grameenphone will support to bring this essential skill to the forefront of the mainstream of society.


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