Peer to Peer Multiliteracies: A New Concept of Accessibility

This book explores the ways in which multimodality and multilingualism as areas of study intersect and provides empirical examples of how this looks in practice from a wide range of settings. It argues that the everyday practices of multilingual communities are multimodal in nature.

Our contribution to this section of this book, on working towards the intersection between multimodality and multilingualism, brings out a new concept of accessibility stemming from our work on the project ‘Peer to Peer Deaf Multiliteracies: Towards a Sustainable Approach to Education’ (2017–2020). In this project, multiliteracies have provided a key creative lens with which to work with young deaf adults and children in India, Ghana and Uganda, to support access to education for them. Drawing on multiliteracies, in the project we developed a pedagogy that supports use of a sign language (for example Indian Sign Language – ISL) with developing English literacy.

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