By Silvana Veinberg | Institutional development
We are proud to announce that thanks to YOUR help, deaf children from all over Argentina had recently have the opportunity to participate telling their own stories in Argentine Sign Language (LSA).
Deaf children all over the world have little or no opportunities to be “heard”. They are mostly being told, taught, and shown in a passive way.
In order to change this undesirable frequent situation, we organized the 5th Literary National Contest in LSA. The aim of this program is to promote reading, but mostly to encourage deaf children and teenagers to choose their stories, recreate them and present them in their own language, LSA.
This edition´s theme focused on stories that included some kind of reference to deaf characters and deaf culture to disseminate and empower deaf values and deaf community's world perspectives.
The award winning stories received a prize and were translated into Spanish so that deaf and hearing children can access stories narrated by deaf storytellers.
Due to the particular characteristics of this year's Award Ceremony, the event took place on the Zoom platform with live LSA interpreters and deaf hosts. Deaf schools from all over the country assisted and we invited also a deaf magician and the president of the Argentine Deaf Confederation to congratulate all the young participants.
You are invited to watch and listen to them in an inclusive format on the website www.cuentoslsa.org.ar .
Thank you for giving deaf children the possibility to express themselves!
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