Cuban Deaf Association Promotes Learning of Spanish Language Among Deaf Community

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Cuban Deaf Association Promotes Learning of Spanish Language Among Deaf

ANSOC’s educational program responds to the need to have children become familiar with both languages since early ages at the province’s school for children with disabilities so that they develop writing and speaking skills.

The communication workshop “La Peña de Comunicacion,” first held in 2008, is another space for ANSOC members to broaden their vocabulary and learn new signs. La Peña also encourages discussion on sexual education, good manners, and it features lectures about historical and present-day events.

Sign language instructor Otto Velez, who is totally deaf, told ACN he studies the words on the Spanish dictionary to come up with new signs that he would later teach to hearing-impaired children and students who are training to become sign language interpreters in polytechnic schools in the province.

Raquel Amador, ANSOC’s vice president in Camagüey, said one of the organization’s top priorities is to get deaf people to study or work in an effort to help them increase their cultural level and quality of life.

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The more languages anyone, whether deaf or hearing, the better off they are.