Rand兰德：2025年英国手语的经济价值研究报告（英文版）

More than 430 million people worldwide – including 34 million children – live with disabling hearing loss, facing persistent barriers to education, employment and social participation. In the UK, around 1-2 in every 1,000 children are born deaf, most to hearing parents with little experience of deafness. Although early screening enables rapid diagnosis, many children still face language deprivation if hearing technologies alone do not provide full or delayed access to spoken language. British