By Silvana Veinberg | Executive Director
Videobooks in Sign Language for deaf children was born 6 years ago as a result of a literature promotion program. The first 15 videobooks were created without any knowledge about what the final product would look like and without any previous experience in the elaboration of this type of material. It was a huge effort from a large team of hearing and deaf people, committed to improve the education and well-being of deaf children in Argentina.
Over the years, and with the help of people that shared our goals, Videobooks has become a reference of literature for deaf children in Argentina and beyond. During these years the program has also given birth to different projects to promote reading and literature. National Contests of Storytelling in Sign Language, Elderly deaf adults telling stories to little deaf children, Storytelling festivals, a new website with storytelling, a new design of the Videobooks site, the presentation of Videobooks in national and international fairs, the recognition of UNICEF as referents for the elaboration of accessible materials for deaf children, and our latest accomplishment: the internationalization of the project. Today, Videobooks has 60 storybooks in three differente Sign Languages and it is willing to include sign languages of more countries and more books. We are very thankful to all the people that believed in us and that collaborated with the project so that it could be fulfilled.
Although Videobooks will continue growing, today we are starting a new project that will give deaf children the opportunity to have a textbook to learn to read and write in Spanish. We invite you to discover our new proposal at: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/give-deaf-children-in-argentina-a-textbook/
Join us! Let’s promote literacy!
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