This video comes from the
country of Nepal. A charity in
the UK works closely with the
Bhairahawa School for the Deaf.
The charity, The Esther
Benjamins Trust, has helped this
school build new classrooms,
pays for scholarships for the
students in need, and provides
volunteers to work with the
children. In this video, two
volunteers from the UK teach the
students how to make mosaics.
The volunteers’ names are
Camille Kinchin and Holly
Wheaton. Holly and Camille want
to teach the students a new
skill that will help them earn
money in the future.
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Invitation to take part in an
international research project
Centre for Education of the Deaf and
Hard of Hearing Students at John
Paul II Catholic University of
Lublin, Poland, kindly invites your
institution to take part in an
international research project on
"Foreign Languages for the Deaf -
State of the Art and Future
Challenges". Project aims at characterising the ways deaf/Deaf
people acquire a foreign language
and is sponsored by a research grant
form Polish Ministry of Science and
High Education.....
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Friendship Schools Schools who would like to contact other schools
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.
The European Federation
of Associations of Teachers of the Deaf (FEAPDA)
is a group of Teachers of the Deaf from across
Europe and includes the following countries -
Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden,
Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and the UK
. The federation has been running for 40 years.
The aim of the federation is to look at issues
concerning the education of deaf children and
young people. A congress is held every two years
in one of the member countries. The aim of these
biennial congresses is to spread good practice,
to hear about new developments in the field and
to allow Teachers of the Deaf to meet each other
to discuss their work with deaf children and
young people.
www.feapda.org/
There is a new cartoon for deaf
children in Russia. The
characters in the cartoon are
cute dogs who communicate with
sign language. The cartoon is a
project of an organization named
the Academy of Open
Communications which is located
in the city of Kazan. The
director of the organization,
Tatiana Merzlyakova, says that
the cartoon will not only
entertain children, but it will
also teach them sign language.
The cartoon will start showing
in Kazan in September, 2010.
Billy Adams in 9 years old
and lives in the USA. He is
deaf and was born with Down
Syndrome. He recently
started training to become a
bodybuilder. He has been
appearing at bodybuilding
competitions and receiving
standing ovations!
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