CBLS has received the mandate to support AQILS with setting up a complaint intake and community relations committee as well as a complain management protocol. In order to position itself as an ally to the Deaf community, the compliant intake committee will also be taking on the role of educating its members on good professional […]

Thanks to the financial support of the ministère de l’Éducation du Québec (MEQ) and the Office des personnes handicapées du Québec (OPHQ), CB Linguistic Services (CBLS), under the direction of Ms Cynthia Benoit, was mandated to translate three TV programs from French to LSQ: Moments doux avec Passe-Partout, L’école à la maison and Les suppléants, […]

CBLS offered professional development trainings on these two topics: Ethics in the context of interpretation Good interpretation practices in the school environment These trainings have allowed French-LSQ interpreters and oral interpreters to be better equipped to work with Deaf and hard of hearing students.  

In spring 2021, CBLS offered five online training courses for the teaching staff and LSQ instructors at Gadbois school so that they develop their skills in Quebec Sign Language (LSQ): Expressions in LSQ Use of space Embodied actions Classifiers Knowledge integration   A better understanding of the LSQ linguistics helps to improve interventions and teaching […]

Feasibility Study on Expanding LSQ Interpretation Services in Ontario (2020) In collaboration with Canadian Hearing Services (CHS) and Dr. Debra Russell from DLR Consulting, CBLS was contracted to conduct a feasibility study and a gap analysis for the expansion of LSQ Interpretation Services in Ontario.   Development of five online training modules for French-LSQ interpreters […]

The Ontario Ministry of Education entrusted CBLS with a project to have a selection of 47 leveled books from the GB+ collection accessible in Langue des signes québécoise (LSQ). The main goal of this project was to develop the reading skills of Deaf and hard of hearing students served by the Consortium Centre Jules-Léger and […]

In order to raise awareness about the Deaf culture among all staff members and to enable them to achieve their accessibility and inclusion goals, the Consortium Centre Jules-Léger (CCJL) asked CBLS to develop online training modules on audism, Deaf culture, and best professional practices for working with Deaf and hard of hearing people.  

In close collaboration with Lucien-Pagé secondary school and the service national du RÉCIT en inclusion et adaptation scolaire, we have developed the LSQ School Lexicon. This database of signs, conforming to the content of the Québec Education Program (QEP), gives users access to LSQ vocabulary from different subjects in secondary education like science, math and […]

LSQ Lexicon for Franco-Ontarian schools This LSQ lexicon project for mathematics and science and technology fields allowed a creation of 1,000 video clips of terms in LSQ for each subject. This project, which is funded by the Ministry of Education of Ontario, was developed specifically for the students enrolled at a school of one of […]

Feasibility study for a linguistic intermediary service offering As part of its objectives to determine the feasibility and viability of the linguistic intermediary service, the SIVET commissioned CBLS to develop an overview of this type of offering. The goal was to determine if the offer was technically feasible, financially viable, and if there were benefits […]

Newly added in 2022, LSQ parent-child courses are specially designed for parents and children who wish to be introduced to Quebec Sign Language (langue des signes québécoise – LSQ) for various reasons, whether it is for the pure pleasure of learning a three-dimensional language, to promote the language development of children, to improve communication within […]

For a more accessible world, awareness must also reach out to young people, who are the society of tomorrow. Introductory courses in Quebec Sign Language (LSQ) are offered in some high schools as an extracurricular activity for 10 weeks, one hour per week. This course aims to introduce participants to LSQ in order to develop […]

Sport safety CBLS conducted a study on sport safety for Deaf and hard of hearing athletes. The main goal of the project was to examine the experiences of those athletes with respect to sport safety, as well as the role of the CDSA, particularly regarding the different forms of maltreatment. Following the study, awareness video […]

LSQ courses for businesses Launched in 2021, LSQ courses for businesses are designed for organisations who want to introduce Quebec Sign Language (LSQ) into their workplace for various purposes, such as learning a 3D language or make their business more accessible and knowledgeable about Deaf culture, both for their Deaf and hard of hearing clients […]

                            Our heritage in LSQ This project was made possible through SIVET’s “Communo-Inclusion” program. The $5,000 contribution granted under this program enabled CBLS to offer a total of 11 workshops on the following five themes: The art of giving a public speech […]

  The 10th International Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference took place from June 19th to 23rd, 2021 as a virtual congress. The theme of this event was Strengthening Deaf Academics and Researchers Agora. The Agora is this space where we meet, in our deaf diversity, in order to exchange, to learn from each other and […]

An awareness campaign to spotlight the French Ottawa Deaf community Thanks to a micro-grant from the Association of francophone communities of Ottawa (Association des communautés francophones d’Ottawa – ACFO) (ACFO) as part of the Bilingual Ottawa Project, funded by the Government of Canada, CBLS was able to conduct an awareness campaign on the linguistic reality […]

CBLS has developed a proficiency evaluation system for Quebec Sign Language, a first for Canada!

Within the framework of the 2019 Winter Deaflympics, held in Italy from December 12 to 21, 2019, CBLS collaborated with Wink Strategies and the Canadian Deaf Sports Association (CDSA) in their fundraising efforts to support the Deaf and hard-of-hearing Canadian athletes who participated in the Deaflympics. We successfully raised over $25,000 in six months and […]

We developed the LSQ school lexicon in close collaboration with École Lucien-Pagé and the Service national du RÉCIT en adaptation scolaire.