PSP aids learning for deaf children

Sony’s PlayStation Portable is the ideal machine for deaf children, according to the deputy head of a primary school for the hearing impaired.

Alison Carter of Longwill School for the Deaf, Birmingham hailed Sony’s handheld platform as a learning tool for the school’s deaf students.

Through the use of the system’s camera attachment, the children can record their teacher performing British Sign Language (BSL), the UK’s most widely-used form of the communication.

"We had kids where their written work wasn’t as good as their signing," Carter told The Guardian. "They improved by signing their stories back to the camera, taking the camera back to their desk and trying to translate what they had said in BSL into written English, which is their second language. That’s been very successful."

Every student at Longwill primary school now owns a PSP.