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The last week in the month of September is Deaf Awareness Week, observed at this time in commemoration of the first World Congress of the Deaf held the same week back in 1951. Deaf Awareness events will be held throughout the nation the 23rd of September through the 29th in 2007, but most especially in localities with institutions of higher learning for the deaf community. Schools such as the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind (VSDB), one of the oldest schools in Virginia and second of its kind in the world, will host events throughout the week. VSDB was founded in 1838!
Deaf Awareness events range from exhibits held in a school corridor to a full week of events scheduled throughout a city or town. Lectures, performance artists, historical exhibits, film festivals and deaf awareness programs held in concurrence with other entertainment venues will be held across the nation this last week of September!
National Black Deaf Advocates (NBDA) is the oldest and largest consumer organization of deaf and hard of hearing black individuals in the United States. Deaf leaders from the African American community were concerned that the deaf and hard of hearing from the black community were not adequately being represented therefore establishing the NBDA in 1982. NBDA began with two chapters but has grown to represent 30 chapters, serving as a national advocate for thousands of deaf African Americans nationwide (National Black Deaf Advocates).
Some of the objectives of Deaf Awareness Week are as follows:
• To educate the hearing community on the types, degrees and causes of hearing loss.
• To distinguish the differences in the attitudinal approaches to deafness by the hearing public and deaf people themselves.
• To facilitate a better understanding of deaf culture within the hearing community.
• To make others familiar with the resources and services available to the deaf community.
• To facilitate a better understanding of deaf culture.
• To bring about the awareness that deaf people can do anything and everything but hear.
For more information on what it is like to be deaf in America log onto Deaf Is... an informational website created by students of the American School for the deaf located in West Hartford, Connecticut.
The last week in the month of September is Deaf Awareness Week, observed at this time in commemoration of the first World Congress of the Deaf held the same week back in 1951. Deaf Awareness events will be held throughout the nation the 23rd of September through the 29th in 2007, but most especially in localities with institutions of higher learning for the deaf community. Schools such as the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind (VSDB), one of the oldest schools in Virginia and second of its kind in the world, will host events throughout the week. VSDB was founded in 1838!
Deaf Awareness events range from exhibits held in a school corridor to a full week of events scheduled throughout a city or town. Lectures, performance artists, historical exhibits, film festivals and deaf awareness programs held in concurrence with other entertainment venues will be held across the nation this last week of September!
National Black Deaf Advocates (NBDA) is the oldest and largest consumer organization of deaf and hard of hearing black individuals in the United States. Deaf leaders from the African American community were concerned that the deaf and hard of hearing from the black community were not adequately being represented therefore establishing the NBDA in 1982. NBDA began with two chapters but has grown to represent 30 chapters, serving as a national advocate for thousands of deaf African Americans nationwide (National Black Deaf Advocates).
Some of the objectives of Deaf Awareness Week are as follows:
• To educate the hearing community on the types, degrees and causes of hearing loss.
• To distinguish the differences in the attitudinal approaches to deafness by the hearing public and deaf people themselves.
• To facilitate a better understanding of deaf culture within the hearing community.
• To make others familiar with the resources and services available to the deaf community.
• To facilitate a better understanding of deaf culture.
• To bring about the awareness that deaf people can do anything and everything but hear.
For more information on what it is like to be deaf in America log onto Deaf Is... an informational website created by students of the American School for the deaf located in West Hartford, Connecticut.