Considering over 11 Million in the UK are deaf or hard of hearing, we do not educate enough about ways to ease communication for those who are deaf and hard of hearing. 

British Sign Language was only recognised as a language in 2003, it is one that is often confused with sign supported English rather than be acknowledged as a language itself. Just like the languages currently on the curriculum it is a language which has its own grammatical structure and literatures. Not only this, it is an inclusive language for many as over 70,000 people use it as their preferred communitive language. Being able to be taught even Level 1 British Sign Language in schools, would not only allow an ease of communication with the deaf community but also it would help develop awareness and understanding for the deaf community, and help educate others. 

I, myself at 30 have profound hearing loss which has been a rapid decrease. As I am educating myself about being deaf in todays world, I am also still stunned and surprised that at the age of 30 I was taught so little about the awareness of hearing loss and the benefits of learning BSL. I am learning BSL to aid my communicative skills, but I cannot understand why we would not do it to be able to have inclusive communication for everyone. If we taught it at schools from a younger age, we would have basic memory of even being able to do interactions with others, or at least acknowledge a BSL user.