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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.

Please visit the HLAA web site

Learn more about the
2010 HLAA Walk 4 Hearing

 

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Religious organizations, churches, and ministries

DOOR International
USA

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.
 

 

 

 



 

In the news....
 
Photos from LATimes.com

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.

Photo from the BBC web site


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.



 

Photo from: avma.org

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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