Deaf News: New sign language restaurant opens

“They will enjoy learning sign language,” Manikumar told CTV Toronto. “They’ll make some mistakes, they’ll have fun so it creates an experience for the guests.”

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The restaurant — billed as the first of its kind in Canada — also hopes to help an underemployed segment of the population.

“I think this is one of the largest breakthroughs we’ve seen in our community in a long time,” he said. “We probably have 35 staff (members) working in one place…that’s huge for our community.”

In Canada, approximately five per cent of Canadians 15 years of age and older have some form of hearing loss, according to Statistics Canada data collected in 2006. Of that population who were surveyed, the agency says 6.5 per cent of them believed they were refused a job due to their hearing loss, while three per cent say they were refused a promotion.

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