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Deaf Awareness Week | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online
Presidential Proclamation No. 823 issued on November 8, 1991, and Department of Education Memorandum No. 397, s. 2010, the 2010 call for the observance of Deaf Awareness Week on November 7-13 this year with the theme “Be a Part… Not Apart.” All public, private, special schools with programs for the deaf, and Special Education (SpEd) Centers are urged to undertake activities in support of the celebration in consonance with the DepEd Engaged Time-on-Task Policy.
Among the activities that can be held are the hanging of streamers on the celebration in strategic areas; sponsoring academic, arts and crafts, visual and performing arts activities, and sports competitions for students with hearing impairment; leadership and other skills training and job fairs; product and output exhibits; free sign language lessons; parent symposiums on early detection, intervention, and education of the deaf; exhibit of education services offered to the hearing impaired; medical missions; and cultural shows. Selected malls will offer free hearing screening during the week.
Studies reveal that generally one to three individuals in every 1,000 births suffer from some form of hearing impairment: 90 percent of deaf children are born into families where both parents have hearing impairment; men are more likely to experience hearing loss than women; and there is a strong relationship between age and hearing loss.
The Philippines, a signatory to the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education, has exerted efforts to enable children and adults with special needs to get into the mainstream. The Framework, which was adopted at the World Conference on Special Needs Education held in Salamanca, Spain, in 1994, underscores the importance of sign language as the medium of communication among the deaf, prescribing the recognition of a natural sign language, and deaf peoples’ access to education in their language. A study on the Philippine Signed Languages Survey and Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc. (SIL) International in 2008 shows that deaf children in the Philippines are more fortunate than most of their counterparts in other Third World countries because the Philippine government and some non-government organizations have embarked on programs that provide access to education for the young and appropriate employment for adults.
In celebrating Deaf Awareness Week this year, we not only pay tribute to countless individuals who, despite their hearing and other impairments, endeavor to have access to education to improve their lot. Let us support every effort to bring them into the mainstream, where they too have a rightful place, and help them to gain access to opportunities to become productive members of their community and country.
Presidential Proclamation No. 823 issued on November 8, 1991, and Department of Education Memorandum No. 397, s. 2010, the 2010 call for the observance of Deaf Awareness Week on November 7-13 this year with the theme “Be a Part… Not Apart.” All public, private, special schools with programs for the deaf, and Special Education (SpEd) Centers are urged to undertake activities in support of the celebration in consonance with the DepEd Engaged Time-on-Task Policy.
Among the activities that can be held are the hanging of streamers on the celebration in strategic areas; sponsoring academic, arts and crafts, visual and performing arts activities, and sports competitions for students with hearing impairment; leadership and other skills training and job fairs; product and output exhibits; free sign language lessons; parent symposiums on early detection, intervention, and education of the deaf; exhibit of education services offered to the hearing impaired; medical missions; and cultural shows. Selected malls will offer free hearing screening during the week.
Studies reveal that generally one to three individuals in every 1,000 births suffer from some form of hearing impairment: 90 percent of deaf children are born into families where both parents have hearing impairment; men are more likely to experience hearing loss than women; and there is a strong relationship between age and hearing loss.
The Philippines, a signatory to the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education, has exerted efforts to enable children and adults with special needs to get into the mainstream. The Framework, which was adopted at the World Conference on Special Needs Education held in Salamanca, Spain, in 1994, underscores the importance of sign language as the medium of communication among the deaf, prescribing the recognition of a natural sign language, and deaf peoples’ access to education in their language. A study on the Philippine Signed Languages Survey and Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc. (SIL) International in 2008 shows that deaf children in the Philippines are more fortunate than most of their counterparts in other Third World countries because the Philippine government and some non-government organizations have embarked on programs that provide access to education for the young and appropriate employment for adults.
In celebrating Deaf Awareness Week this year, we not only pay tribute to countless individuals who, despite their hearing and other impairments, endeavor to have access to education to improve their lot. Let us support every effort to bring them into the mainstream, where they too have a rightful place, and help them to gain access to opportunities to become productive members of their community and country.