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Name der Schule: Cosmos High School in
Windhoek, Hauptstadt von Namibia
Ansprechpartner: Retha Landsberg
Alter der SchülerInnen: 18 bis 22
Im Januar 2008 wurde in der Cosmos
High School eine Integrationspädagogik umgesetzt, als 2
gehörlose Schüler in die 11. Klasse eingestiegen sind. Die
Schüler haben die 10. Klasse an dem Institut für
Sonderunterricht von Namibia abgeschlossen. Auf der Cosmos
High School kann man die 11. und 12. Klasse abschließen.
Zwei Gebärdensprachdolmetscher sind immer in ihren Klassen
anwesend.
Dieses Jahr haben wir zwei Studierende
in der 12. Klasse. Ihre Namen sind Inocencia und Kristofina.
Kristofina ist auch Mitglied des LRC (Learner Representative
Council) Lernendenvertretungsrat.
Cosmos High School befindet sich im
Zentrum von Windhoek, Hauptstadt von Namibia in Südafrika.
Wir haben 704 Studierende in der Schule von der 8. bis zur
12. Klasse (Mittelstufe sowie Oberstufe). Windhoek hat ein
sehr moderates Klima und wir haben noch keine extrem
Situationen erlebt. Die Namibwüste beginnt 150 km von
Windhoek entfernt und ist eines der Weltwunder!! Hier haben
wir die höchsten Dünen der Welt.
Deutsche Übersetzung von Melanie Foth
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Addis Ababa University sign language and
deaf culture study
Person to contact: Tigist Negash
Location: Ethiopia
Ages of students: 19-35
The class began last September 2008 for the first time. The
course focuses on sign language and deaf culture. At this
time, the class contains 26 students. Out of this, 20 are deaf
and the others are hearing students.
The school is located at addis ababa around 6 killo.
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Person to contact: Levent Akyel
Location: Turkey
Age of students: 6 - 16
We are a boarding school for the deaf at the primary school
level. Our students came from the region of Edirne,
İstanbul and Tekirdağ,
which is the Marmara Sea region of Turkey. We have done various
international projects and we are looking forward for attending
new projects. We can communicate in English and Bulgarian.
Our school is located close to the Greek and Bulgarian borders
of Turkey, in the beautiful city of Edirne. Edirne is considered
to be the door of Turkey that opens into Europe.
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Person to contact: Kidane Admasu
Location: Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Age of students: 18 to .....
Our School, Addis Ababa University, gives a regular program in
sign language and deaf culture by BA Degree.
It is located in Addis Ababa , the capital city of Ethiopia.
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Person to contact: Tatjana Golubeva
Location: Russia, City of Omsk
Age of
students: 14-15 year old
There are
152 pupils learning at our school. The school is for the
deaf persons. There are 11 persons in our 7а group. Some
boys go in for football and volleyball. Girls like
volleyball too. Two guys are engaged in drawing and computer
graphics at an arts school. There are 6 girls in our group
and 5 boys.
City of Omsk is situated in the Western Siberia. Two rivers
flow through the city: Irtysh and Omj. There are many
theaters, museums, and monuments in the city. "Avanguard"
hockey team is very well known in Russia as it was the
champion of Russia. Omsk gymnast girl E. Kanaeva - is an
Olympic Champion.
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Person to contact: MARGARET ODHIAMBO
Location: MUMIAS (WESTERN KENYA)
Ages of students: 3-24years
My school has about 500 kids. The number is still increasing hence
congested facilities. there is need for upgrading of facilities
to enable the kids learn effectively. the school is divided into
primary section, vocational section and special class section.
it also cater for the early childhood education(kindergarten).
The school has been lobbying for financial aids to help in
putting up dormitories to accommodate the rising number of the
kids as they share beds which are congested in small
dormitories. This also applies to classrooms.
The school is in western province of kenya about 500Km from
Nairobi,from Kisumu it is about 2hours drive. You pass kakamega
then take a left turn to mumias town.it is located near st.
mary's hospital before reaching mumias town
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Person to contact: BENARD OCHIENG MULAMA
Name of school: St. Mary primary school for the Deaf Nyangoma
Location: BONDO DISTRICT,NYANZA PROVINCE-KENYA
Ages of students: 7-21 years old
The school is called St. Mary primary school
for the Deaf Nyangoma, it is the first Deaf school in
Kenya.classes starts from Nursery Infancy to class 8 with 2
streams each class.
The school too has Peer Health club that are managed by students
themselves where they discuss issues affecting lives like
HIV,drug abuse,career counsellings and others
The school is located in Bondo District just 55 kilometers from
and 1 and half hour drive from Kisumu which is a 6Hours drive
from Nairobi city.
The school community has a very pleasing hospitality and that is
culture throughout a couple of years, the community around
school to are able to use sign language.
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Person to contact: Terena meingin
Name of school: NEOSHO Growrhet college
Place: Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia
My school is very little tiny and its very small level.
My school is located in chuuk
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Person to contact: Alejandra Renjifo
Name of school: corporacion educativa popular
Place: Colombia
Ages of students: Only me 14
This is great as
we are taught to make friends and gain insight. I do hope
to know you all. I live in the south part of the city.
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Person to contact: Pastor Austine Otieno
Name of school: Maseno School for the Deaf
Place: Kisumu, Kenya
Ages of students: 6-19years
The school was started by the missionaries in 1976. The school has
over 200 deaf students. It also has deaf-blind childrens. Most of
these children are from poor families and are orphans. Mostly
affected are Deaf-blind children. They really need to be helped with
fees and facilities for education.
The school is on along the Kisumu to Busia road. It is near
Maseno University, about 3km from Kisumu.
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Person to contact: Oliver Otieno
Place: Nakuru, Kenya
Ages of students: between yrs 6 to 18
It is a public school located within Nakuru town. Most of our learners
are collected from the streets. Some of the parents do not want to
accept the fact that their children are actually hard of hearing.
The government is also not able to give adequate support. They want
the parents to supplement. However most parents are not able due to
their financial inability. The learners are very interested to
learn. they are very friendly and very willing. They love
visitors a lot.
Our school is located within a 10acr land within Nakuru town Kenya.
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Person to contact: Sevdelina
Djongarska
Place: Bulgaria
School for deaf children and kindergarten
Ages of students: 2-20
My school is a biggest in east Europe and in Bulgaria. We recive
students of all parts of the country.
My school is situated in Sofia, nearly a montain Vitosha.
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Person to contact: Mae Riccah Nikka
Monteron
Place: pasay city (Philippines) Philippine School for the Deaf
Age of students: 16 years old
Philippine school for the deaf is located at Pasay City, Philippines.
We have twelve students in our class.
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Person to contact: Ashley
Place: USA
Number of students: 17
Well our school is not deaf but we are doing a big project about
countries and my country is ghana i would like to know little about
it so i can do it for my asl class. I would like to know how many
school do you have for your deaf school, educaion of the deaf
teacher training deaf teacher communcation method technology tty's
signalers cochlear implants tv accessibility captioning etc, history
that affect deaf education and life, interpreter serices deaf life
any restrictions social cultura; job opportunities
we are in the usa
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Person to
contact: Giovanna Saettone
Place:
Borghetto S. S (Savona), LIGURIA, Italy
Age of
Students: 13/14 years old
Number of
students: 2 classes of 16 students each (32 students in all)
Study of
English, French and Spanish
Desire to know
more about other countries' cultures
Possibility to
exchange individual letters, pictures, videos...
Lessons started from September 17th.
Our location: Little seaside village, close to Alassio and to
San Remo (LIGURIA).
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Contact person: Richie doku
Akropong Akwapem Ghana
My school is a college for hearing students but we have five deaf
students in the college. We use sign language in class with an
interpreter and some of our hearing friends also learn sign language
because they are interested.
My school is in Ghana, West Africa. It is in the eastern part of Ghana
in Akropong Akwapem on a mountain which has cool weather every day.
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Contact person: John Ronald Villegas
Campoverde
calicuhima entrecarchi y tulcan/ Guayaquil/ Ecuador
Hi, I am the president of a new association of parents of deaf
children. Our goal is to get them hearing aids, and also to get
ourselves trained so we can help our children achieve success.
Our school is in Ecuador's province of Guayas, which belongs to the
Guayaquil municipality, it accepts students between 10 months to 15
years old. There are 250 students currently enrolled, the
school was founded 50
years ago.
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School name: Centre for hearing impaired
children
Contact person: Aurelija Cepukiene
Siauliai, Lithuania
Age of students: 2-20 years old
We have children with normal hearing in 3 pre-school groups and
children with hearing impaired in pre-school group and 6 classes. We
want to find friends in another schools for deaf.
Our centre is located in the centre of town near the lake.
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Contact person: Celi Selma Rodrigues
Ariquemes - Rondônia
BRAZIL
Three
students between 9 and 11 years old
Since we
are a school in the outskirts, we have no Brazilian sign language
teachers. We just have a few notions of it and try to interact with
them the best we can. We have had a few classes on sign language,
but we need more. Much more.
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Country: Uruguay
Age: older than 18 years
We are people over 18, students and employees, high school teachers,
psychologists, etc., studying the sign language for helping the deaf
hearing society. Non of us is deaf, we all are hearing people. Our
teacher is deaf and she travels in order to give us classes all
Saturdays.
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Country:
Kyrgyzstan
I study at the University. My future specialty is teaching the deaf.
My native parts are
town of
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
There
are 2 nurseries and 2 schools in
town of
Bishkek.
They are not especially huge but good and cozy, and we often do
practical work there. They are situated near a park or in a quiet
locality.
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Contact person: Paola Amsteins Cordero
Curico, región 7 , Chile , South America
We are the only school in this province since 1994, providing education
for people with hearing impairments. We teach the sign language to
people between 6 months to 18 years old. Our aim is to give our best to
our pupils.
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Association ABEDeS BENIN
Cotonou ( Republic of Benin)
Age of student: 6 to15 years old
Our school was just formed with its first class, which is a case
study. The work has started and by next year we will move on to the
second class in a more orderly fashion.
Our school is located in Cotonou at Godomey,
a region in Benin in which education for the hearing impaired
is almost nonexistent.
It is a primary school.
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School name: Institute for Deaf, Warsaw, Poland.
Contact name: Joanna Lacheta
I teach the third grade in the middle school for deaf in Warsaw, Poland.
There are 5 people in the class, boys only. My school has a long
history - was established in 1817 by a priest Jakub Falkowski.
This is a very nice school with the dormitory. We also have a
pre-school, elementary school, high school and a trade school. We
are curious to find out who will contact us, will there be another
school for deaf?
Greetings from 3rd Grade.
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus School for the Deaf, Hosanna.
Contact person: Zerihun Hailemariam
Location: Southern Nation and Nationalities people Region,
Hosanna , Ethiopia
Student ages: 7-21
The School is going to celebrate its 25th Year anniversary in November
2006. It has Preparatory class for beginners and then Grade 1-8
which is Elementary school and Grade 9-10 a high school. The school
gives academic Education and vocational Education. It is a residential
School taking deaf children from all over the country except the western
part of Ethiopia where they go to our second school at Nekemte.
The school is located in Southern region 232 km south of the capital city
Addis Ababa in Hosanna. Hosanna is a small town. The school is opened
here not because of many deaf in the area but the availability of place
to open in the church area
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