By Silvana Bonnet | Comunity Manager
Lots of achievements during Deaf People´s Month.
In September the whole world celebrates deaf communities, their sign languages and their culture. Thank you for your interest in this project and for being part of this celebration!
Considering the relevance of this month, in which we also celebrate the national day of deaf people in Argentina, and as an organization committed to the development of deaf children, Canales is working at full speed so that our projects reach all deaf children.
We joined the global mobilization proposed by the World Federation of the Deaf, by developing two major pieces of material: first, we translated into Spanish and Argentine Sign Language - LSA - the Declaration on the Rights of Deaf Children. We have made it available on all our networks because we believe that it’s essential that this material reaches every school, every association of the deaf and every home.
Second, we are reinforcing this mobilization with a video campaign based on each of the themes proposed by the WFD for this week. It is crucial that deaf girls and boys know about their identity, the history of deaf communities and their culture to empower themselves and to make certain their rights.
In addition, we have recently enjoyed ourselves at a great event with deaf children and adolescents: we organized the First Literary Festival in Argentine Sign Language in which 15 schools of deaf students participated personally, and 4 more joined online.
During the Festival, deaf artists presented narratives, poems and a new artistic expression called “vernacular visual” that is being developed around the world by deaf communities, to more than 230 children. This way, we managed to bring deaf girls, boys and adolescents in touch with various expressions of literature in LSA. In addition to live broadcasting the artistic proposals for both age groups (6 to 9 years and 10 to 14 years), we published pedagogical proposals so that teachers in the classroom can resume this experience and delve deeper into different areas related to literacy. It was an extremely enriching experience for all participants and a great meeting between girls, boys, adolescents and teachers who do not have many encountering opportunities.
Regarding the dissemination of stories in Argentine Sign Language, our Videobooks in Sign Language participated in the International pre-festival of Deaf Cinema in Argentina (FICSOR), which had a special chapter for schools for the deaf.
Finally, and to crown this report, we want to share with you that this year Canales is commemorating its 20th anniversary and to celebrate it, we are working on the creation of new textbooks for teaching reading and writing to deaf children, and in the production of early literacy videos. However, the truly innovative and transformative project will be the creation of a bilingual content online platform in LSA and Spanish that will reach all schools and families, an ambitious project that will need the support of institutions, companies and benefactors.
We invite you to join us during Deaf People´s Month and leave your imprint on deaf children education!
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