Coronation Street star Dolly-Rose Campbell explains importance of BSL in Winter-Brown scenes

 Little Aled has profound hearing loss.

Coronation Street's Dolly-Rose Campbell has referenced the importance of promoting British Sign Language in the soap.

She plays Gemma Winter, fiancée to Chesney Brown and mother to their quadruplets Bryn, Cleo, Carys and Aled, with the latter child being diagnosed with profound hearing loss two years ago.

Campbell's character now actively signs on screen, even when chatting to non-Deaf people.

On her experience of learning the language, the soap star shared: "I have just finished my Level 1 and am halfway through Level 2. Lots of people have said to me that they want to learn sign language when I have told them what I am doing, but they don't know how to get started with it.

"Sign language lessons can be really expensive so that may be one of the barriers preventing parents from accessing the tools to learn. You have to learn sign language from a deaf person because they are using the language every day, it is their language.

The first step would be to include deaf awareness training in schools and improve the learning experience for deaf children," she stressed.

"There is support available but parents are really having to fight for it."

As it happens, Campbell's comments mirror her upcoming Corrie storyline.

Further along,  'Biggest Unsung Hero' nominee of 2016 explained why TV is such a great platform to normalise signing.

"I was hoping that people would start to enjoy those elements of the scenes and not be distracted by it and that is the feedback I am getting. It also adds something to Gemma," she said.

"I wanted to illustrate the extra joy that you can get and what you can learn from knowing someone who is different rather than people thinking how hard it must be as a hearing person having a deaf child.

"You can learn a lot from them and grow yourself because of this relationship and the joy that can bring to the rest of the family."

Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.