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The student union at the University of Manchester in England received unwanted attention online following reports of what was described as a clapping ban during some of their events. The union voted on 27 September 2018 to swap audible clapping out for British Sign Language (BSL) clapping, in which participants wave their hands, during democratic events related to student union policy. [Clapping] can trigger issues for students who have autism, sensory issues, and deafness. And it can discourage them from being present at those events, said Sara Khan, the union's liberation and access officer. While the move was mocked on social media, critics failed to point out that according to a union statement, the encouragement of BSL clapping had a limited scope: The group also said that contrary to media inaccuracies, they did not plan to institute a ban on audible clapping: The country's National Union of Students (NUS), an umbrella organization comprising student unions from more than 600 such groups, has reportedly used BSL at some events since 2015.
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