List of the Best Sign Language Schools in Kenya

List of the Best Sign Language Schools in Kenya. Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulations in combination with non-manual elements. Sign languages are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon. Sign languages are not universal and are usually not mutually intelligible with each other, although there are also similarities among different sign languages.

Linguists consider both spoken and signed communication to be types of natural language, meaning that both emerged through an abstract, protracted aging process and evolved over time without meticulous planning. Sign language should not be confused with body language, a type of nonverbal communication.

Wherever communities of deaf people exist, sign languages have developed as useful means of communication, and they form the core of local Deaf cultures. Although signing is used primarily by the deaf and hard of hearing, it is also used by hearing individuals, such as those unable to physically speak, those who have trouble with spoken language due to a disability or condition (augmentative and alternative communication), or those with deaf family members, such as children of deaf adults.

The number of sign languages worldwide is not precisely known. Each country generally has its own native sign language, and some have more than one. The 2021 edition of Ethnologue lists 150 sign languages, while the SIGN-HUB Atlas of Sign Language Structures lists over 200 and notes that there are more which have not been documented or discovered yet. As of 2021, Indo Sign Language is the most used sign language in the world, and Ethnologue ranks it as the 151st most “spoken” language in the world. Some sign languages have obtained some form of legal recognition.

Linguists distinguish natural sign languages from other systems that are precursors to them or obtained from them, such as invented manual codes for spoken languages, home sign, “baby sign“, and signs learned by non-human primates.

Here is a List of the Best Sign Language Schools in Kenya

Sign Language Resource Center

School for the deaf in Nairobi, Kenya

Address: 23908, Nairobi, Kenya 00100, Kenya Rd, Nairobi City, Kenya

Phone: +254 706 224450

Karen Technical Training Institute For The Deaf

Special education school in Nairobi, Kenya

Address: Karen Rd, Nairobi, Kenya

Phone: +254 20 884187

The Language School in Kenya

Language school in Nairobi, Kenya

Address: Chania Ave, Nairobi, Kenya

Phone: +254 703 228840

Appointments: languageschoolkenya.org

A C K Language & Orientation School

Language school in Nairobi, Kenya

Address: Bishop Rd, Nairobi, Kenya

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Phone: +254 20 2721893

Kenya Institute Of Special Education

Address: Nairobi, Kenya

Departments: M-Pesa Kiwi Communications · Nairobi Chapel Northway

Founded: February 14, 1986

Phone: +254 20 8007977

Kenya Institute of Foreign Languages & Professional Studies (KIFLAPS)

Address: Kenda House, Tom Mboya St, Nairobi, Kenya

Products and Services: kiflaps.ac.ke

Appointments: kiflaps.ac.ke

Phone: +254 710 462063

Kenya Institute of Development Studies

College in Nairobi, Kenya

Address: Tumaini House, Floor 5 and 6, Moi Ave, Nairobi, Kenya

Phone: +254 725 857976

The Language Center

Language school in Nairobi, Kenya

Address: Ndemi Cl, Nairobi, Kenya

Phone: +254 721 495774

Nairobi Intercultural and Language School

Language school in Nairobi, Kenya

Located in: Kiddy Villa Kindergarten

Phone: +254 728 415914

Novel Multimedia Academy

Address: hSenid Business Solutions Kenya (Pvt) Ltd, 26 Muthithi Rd, Nairobi, Kenya

Phone: +254 780 252580

EAST AFRICA INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED STUDIES (ICS College)

College in Nairobi, Kenya

Address: Stanbank House, 3rd floor Moi Ave, Nairobi, Kenya

Phone: +254 722 857455

St. Joseph Technical Institute For The Deaf Nyang’oma

Technical school in Bondo, Kenya

Address: Bondo, Kenya

Phone: +254 731 255167

Oshwal college

College in Nairobi, Kenya

Address: Oshwal College Premises, Second Parklands Ave, Westlands, Kenya

Phone: +254 729 644691

Kedowa Special School for the Deaf

Address: Nairobi Rd, Kericho, Kenya

Rifkins College in Mombasa

College in Mombasa, Kenya

Address: Digo Road, Kenya

Products and Services: rifkinscollege.com

Phone: +254 715 043739

Zydii

Educational institution in Nairobi, Kenya

Address: 7th Floor ABC place, Kenya

Phone: +254 713 923759

St. Paul’s University — Nairobi Campus

Address: Church House, Haile Selassie Ave, Nairobi, Kenya

Phone: +254 701 079407

Kenya Institute Of Professional Studies

Address: Wililily, Kitui Rd, Katulini, Kenya

Phone: +254 720 813113

Located in: Philadelphia House