Translated into English by Patricia and
Walter Castro
Francisco Goulão has
been a teacher of Visual Education
in the António Cândido Center,
Porto, Portugal for more than 14 years.
However, he has dedicated himself to
this profession for 32 years, after
graduating in Painting by the Fine
Arts School of the Lisbon
University. He’s Deaf “of soul and
heart” and 58 years old. We’re
talking about the Deaf teacher
Francisco Goulão.
He has been an indispensable
reference for many Deaf people who
in their majority have been his own
students, and also for many members
of the Deaf Community – at least
from those generations from a time
when Internet and many other current
technologies, such as cell phones,
were still not a reality.
At that time, there were only
newspapers, accessible only to those
who could understand written
Portuguese reasonably well. The
traditional and eternal TV News
keeps on banning the Deaf from the
precious access to information,
leaving only the complementary
elucidative images.....To
continue
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Clubs and Organizations
The Hearing Loss Association of
America (HLAA) is the USA’s leading
organization representing people
with hearing loss. 36 million (17%)
American adults have some degree of
hearing loss. It is a public health
issue third in line after heart
disease and arthritis.
HLAA provides assistance and
resources for people with hearing
loss and their families to learn how
to adjust to living with hearing
loss. HLAA is working to eradicate
the stigma associated with hearing
loss and raise public awareness
about the need for prevention and
the importance of regular hearing
screenings throughout life.
DOOR International works to bring God’s Word
to deaf communities around the world. The
headquarters is in the USA. Their past and
present work has been in the countries of
Kenya, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Hungary,
and India.
A
new bronze statue of Helen
Keller was recently set up in
the United States Capitol
building. Helen Keller was a
famous deaf-blind woman from the
USA. Helen was born in 1880 and
died in 1968. The new statue
shows Helen standing by a water
well with her hand in the water.
This was an important event for
Helen. This was the first word
she learned to spell with the
American Sign Language alphabet.
Janet Salt is a 52 year old deaf
and blind woman from England.
She recently hiked 42 miles (68
km) on the Great Wall of China.
She used the hike to raise money
for a charity in the UK.
Many deaf people have graduated
from veterinary school. They now
work as veterinarians taking
care of animals. One deaf
veterinarian is Dr. Thomas
McDavitt. In this picture, Dr.
McDavitt is checking a dog’s
heartbeat. He is not using a
stethoscope like a hearing
veterinarian uses. He puts his
cheek on the dog’s side to feel
the heart beat.
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Muhammad
Akram is
the
Assistant
Director
of DFI.
He lives
in
Pakistan,
and he
is
working
hard to
help
