All the Singapore employees of US coffee shop giant Starbucks are to attend basic sign language courses in order to prevent potential communication barriers between staff and hearing impaired customers.
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The initiative came with the company’s fifth anniversary activities, and was launched yesterday [Sunday] as part of an Awareness Week programme. This programme will also see any money raised from sales of the group’s merchandise donated to the development fund of the Singapore Association for the Deaf.
