By Silvana Veinberg | project leader
We have reached our last stage! We present you the sign language video and the written book “La familia en tus Manos” (Family is in your hands).
This material will be distributed to deaf schools and deaf Institutions throughout Argentina with the desire to have contributed to improve health care, especially of deaf women and their children.
We hope we will be able to extend the project by spreading this kind of information through the internet.
This material is a part of the project “Promotion and prevention in sexual and reproductive health " and It is destined to give deaf persons information about family planning and related subjects.
It was designed in two parts. The first one consisted of workshops of promotion and prevention of sexual and reproductive health for teenagers, young women and deaf adults and was carried out in conjunction with the medical team of the Argerich Hospital’s Adolescence Service in three deaf schools of the City of Buenos Aires.
The second part was the production of written and video material.
The aim is to offer accessible information for women and deaf families to acquire some basic tools for their health care and care of their children.
Access to information is a fundamental step to cope with not responsible maternity and paternity, and also to learn about basic questions such as body care, family planning, pregnancy and its prevention, breastfeeding, child rising, among others
Many deaf moms, dads or pregnant women wonder: “How can I avoid pregnancy?”
”What will I do when my baby is born?” “How will I communicate with my son if he listens and I do not? ".
These and some other topics are explained in this guide.
Care of the own body and familiar planning are everybody’s right. When information is transmitted only through sounds or written means, it functions as a barrier for deaf people. To achieve a good education and proper forms of communication it is fundamental that natural language of the deaf community is respected and recognized.
This material tries to open a new communicative space in which access to information is recognized as the right of deaf people.
The present guide contains simple vocabulary and is divided in different chapters. The video that accompanies contains the translation to argentine sign language.
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