21st March 2024

Gígja í heimsókn

Margrét Gígja Þórðardóttir, the assistant head of the kindergarten in Sólborg, visited the Communication Centre and introduced the work in Sólborg.

8th March 2024

Agenzija Sapport visits SHH

Between 27 February and 1 March four employees of the Agency Sapport visited the Communication Centre in Malta, including three interpreters and their supervisor, and received a grant for this trip from the Erasmus+ programme.

16th February 2024

Anna Jóna and Valgerður honored on the Day of Icelandic Sign Language

The Icelandic Sign Language Day was celebrated on 11 February, and the Icelandic Communication Centre for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired (SHH) organized a festival program at the Reykjavík Art Museum to mark the day. The festival was organized in collaboration with the Icelandic Sign Language Committee and the Ministry of Culture and Commerce. The Minister of Culture and Commerce presented honorary awards, along with the premiere of a sign language song and a video from sign language children.

26th January 2024

Day of Icelandic Sign Language

The Communication Centre for the Deaf and the Hard of hearing, in collaboration with the Málnefnd um íslenskt Táknmál and the Ministry of Culture and Commerce, is offering a festival program on the Day of Icelandic Sign Language at the Reykjavík Art Museum on February 11th, 17:00-19:00.

21st December 2023

Dr. Valgerður Stefánsdóttir

7th December 2023

Classes in icelandic sign language fall 2024

14th November 2023

Division of Interpretation

Árný Guðmundsdóttir resigns as Head of the Division of Interpretation

18th September 2023

International week of Deaf and International Day of Sign Language

The Deaf's International Week is now 18-24 September.

28th August 2023

EUROCALL 2023

Last week, the EUROCALL 2023 International Conference took place in Iceland. The conference was held in collaboration with the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages, the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies and the Sorbonne University in Paris.

16th June 2023

Sign language teachers' seminar in Portugal

The European Network of Sign Language Teachers (ENSLT) symposium in cooperation with AFOMOS, the Portuguese sign language teachers' association, was held in Porto in May. Eight sign language teachers from Iceland, Portugal, Italy and Germany attended the symposium. Amongst them were three teachers from SHH, Júlía G. Hreinsdóttir, Uldis Ozols and Viktorija Dovydaité.