A deafblind teenage girl is sitting at a table and combs the hair of a mannequin. A
female teacher sits down beside her. On the other side of the teacher a deafblind teenage boy tries to thread a pearl. He succeeds threading
without help but the teacher helps him finding another pearl to thread.
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When new students start at Kilimani Deafblind Unit they have to go through a comprehensive survey to identify their ways of
communicating, learning styles and which activities they enjoy. Based on this information individual educational programs are created.
Listen to Mary Maragia about the importance of individual educational programs.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) is credited with the traditional classification of the five sense organs: sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing.
Humans also have awareness of balance, pressure, temperature, pain, motion and awareness of the position and movement of the parts of the body (the sense of kinesthesia).
A pond is digged in the garden and covered with a tarpaulin. Some soap powder has been added to the water in the pond. A lot of children who are deafblind are playing in the self-made pool, making bobbles and foam. A teacher helps one of the children in the water. The children are moving after each other like train wagons in a @@ -237,7 +239,7 @@
Listen to or read what Mary Maragia says about use of the tactile sense
Deaf-blind people have many different ways of communication. The methods they use vary, depending on the causes and function of their combined vision and hearing loss, their backgrounds, and their education.
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The haptic sign for "walk"
Learn haptic signs from the booklet "Basic Sign Booklet in Haptic Communication" which can be
Tadoma
This is a way for deaf-blind people with little or no usable vision to speechread another person by touch. They put their thumb on the other person’s chin, and their fingers on the other person’s cheek to feel the vibrations of the person’s voice and the movement of their lips.
Read more about communication at: Listen to or read what Mary Maragia says about identification of ways of communication. Mable J. Namata is head of the "Deaf-Blind Unit" at "St. Mark School for the Deaf" in Uganda.
Hear or read her telling about communication with people without a formal language.Identification of ways of communication among new students
Communication with people without a formal language
About 60% of the children at the Uganda School for the Deaf were born hearing. Many contracted childhood diseases like Mumps, Measles, Whooping Cough, High Fever, Meningitis and Malaria that resulted in their Deafness. For some, their mothers contracted rubella during pregnancy. Others lost hearing due to chronic otitis media left untreated diff --git a/content/hearing/s03_l01_en.html b/content/hearing/s03_l01_en.html index 9997decb..d9ce4b07 100644 --- a/content/hearing/s03_l01_en.html +++ b/content/hearing/s03_l01_en.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
As a reference this audiogram shows normal hearing of young people and and adults.
A teacher is standing with a group of students around a carpenter´s bench. It is an inclusive setting with both hearing and deaf
students. On the bench, there is a box made of wood designed for making bricks.
What the teacher orally says is simultaneously interpreted into sign language by a student.
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Rose has been included in ordinary classes from grade 1.
Selene has been her interpreter for many years.
The teacher is worried about Rose Sofie's future schooling.
In a classroom, a group of hard of hearing and deaf students are sitting on the floor making rugs. The students, both girls and boys, are around 13-14 years
old. Some of the students are working with sewing machines on a table. A female teacher facilitates the work and give them advices. A boy is making jewellery by
threading pearls. Two boys are sitting on the floor making rugs.
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A group of deaf students in secondary school are preparing sandwiches together
with their teacher. They are in a classroom and the other students are sitting and watch the preparation. The teacher communicates with the
students using sign language.
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Sign language is a visual and gestural language based on the use of hands, eyes, face, mouth and body. It is visual language expressed with eye movement as well as facial expression.
A boy is signing the letter "A"
+Wherever communities of deaf people exist, sign languages have been developed. A
common misconception is that all sign languages are the same worldwide.
Each country generally has its
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Listen to the interview with Thomas Elias Shayo:
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A female teacher at Kyambogo University stands among a group of students who learn about
interpreting sign language and voicing. She gives her instructions to the students before an exercise in voicing:
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Listen to the interview with Proscovia Suubi Nantongo:
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Adapting the classroom environment:
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Parents to deaf children who attend Twiga Primary School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, tell their stories about:
Approximately 90% of the children born to deaf parents are hearing. Since sign language is the preferred way of communication in families where the parents are deaf and the children are hearing, the network around them may be diff --git a/content/hearing/s06_l02_en.html b/content/hearing/s06_l02_en.html index 4ab8c3f7..9bdd05c4 100644 --- a/content/hearing/s06_l02_en.html +++ b/content/hearing/s06_l02_en.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Nancy Katumba Muwangala volunteers to teach deaf children about their sexual health.
+Nancy Katumba Muwangala volunteers to teach deaf children about their sexual health.
+A female teacher holds a poster with illustrations of the male and female genitals towards lower secondary students who are hearing impaired. The students giggle and laugh. The teacher shows a new poster which illustrate the physical changes in girls. She walks around in the classroom so the students can take a closer look at the poster. diff --git a/content/hearing/s07_l01_en.html b/content/hearing/s07_l01_en.html index aa041009..bf52d437 100644 --- a/content/hearing/s07_l01_en.html +++ b/content/hearing/s07_l01_en.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing.
Source:"Medical Gallery of Blausen Medical 2014"
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990) recalls the Universal Declaration of Human Rights where it is proclaimed and agreed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
Read more about the
Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania have all signed the declaration "The Dakar Framework for Action, Education for All" where six internationally agreed education goals aim to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults by 2015.
Goal number 2 (of 6) in this framework mentions that children with special needs and other marginalized groups, should be given the opportunity to complete a good quality primary education.
The comment according to the second goal says:
"Education systems must be inclusive, actively seeking out children who are not enrolled,
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Uganda:
Francis Kanubi is the headmaster at a special school for the blind near Kampala in Uganda.
- Listen to his nuanced reflections about segregation and inclusion
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Inclusion is based on knowledge.
Integration is based on understanding.
Segregation is based on acceptance.
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The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990) recalls the Universal Declaration of Human Rights where it is proclaimed and agreed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania have all signed the declaration "The Dakar Framework for Action, Education for All" where six internationally agreed education goals aim to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults by 2015.
Goal number 2 (of 6) in this framework mentions that children with special needs and other marginalized groups, should be given the opportunity to complete a good quality primary education.
The comment according to the second goal says:
"Education systems must be inclusive, actively seeking out children who are not enrolled,
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The first image shows what a person with normal vision sees. The second image shows - what is visible to a person with age-related macular degeneration.
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@Albinism in humans is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. The lack of necessary pigments in the eyes has impact on the sight.
Inclusion is the practice of educating the learners with visual impairment in the same school and class alongside other learners.
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declining numbers of
The support may be in adapting the curriculum and teaching methods. It may also involve the provision of specialized @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
In a classroom at Bishop Willis Demonstration School in Iganga,
Uganda a male teacher is standing in front of a class which consists of around 100 students from upper secondary school.
In the front row several blind students sits together with sighted students.
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A male teacher is standing in front of a blackboard in an inclusive class with both sighted and visually impaired students. He is showing two
feathers from a hen to the secondary class students. He says:
They are at different looking.
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Three 10-12 years old blind girls are writing on two Perkins braille-writers.
The teacher which is not seen read a text aloud and the students are writing down what is said.
The teacher says: My
uncle lives in (dash) Uganda. My uncle lives in (dash) Uganda.
When the camera pans around other students are
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Moses, a blind student at Kyambogo University, is preparing a Perking’s braillewriter for
a writing session. A female assistant sits beside him reading aloud from a document while Moses is writing down what is said.
He is writing very, very fast and says off screen: With braille it is a matter of how constant you use it. How constant you braille work. What volumes do you braille. So, I have this speed because I started braille early.
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The Adaptive Technology Instructor Frida Gatwiri Kiambati at Kenya @@ -23,7 +25,7 @@
Frida Gatwiri Kiambati is Adaptive Technology Instructor at Visual Impairment Department at KISE. She introduces computers to learners who have become blind late in life. They learn to operate the computer without using vision.
John M. Muga thinks that the persons who lose sight should be equipped with the skills that make them as useful as they have been before. Muga is a teacher at the Department of Visual Impairments, Kenya Institute of Special Education @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
Abdillah Omar is Treasurer at Tanzania Albinism Society. Listen to the interview in Kiswahili or read the interview in english.
People with albinism in Tanzania have experienced brutal attacks and killings.
Albinos in Tanzania
are brutally slaughtered and killed, because of a completely absurd myth that albino bones can make
you rich. There is a sinister trade of their body parts for use also in witchcraft rituals. Over the
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Happiness Ngaweje is Program Officer responsible for gender, human rights and democracy at the Tanzania Albinism Society. Listen to or diff --git a/content/vision/s07_l02_en.html b/content/vision/s07_l02_en.html index 33f5c0e8..945b6954 100644 --- a/content/vision/s07_l02_en.html +++ b/content/vision/s07_l02_en.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Moses, a blind student at Kyambogo University, sits on a chair and tells his story.
The social setting was not easy at first. It wasn't easy. Because...you know people are not yet sensitised
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The new situation was difficult to him, but later on he
surprised the world by successfully participating in Paralympics and bagging several awards.
Read more about
Source:
Start in a corner.
Start in a corner.
Trial the wall.
Trial the wall.
Turn and return.
Turn and return.
Mobility refers to the ability of moving through the environment in a safe and easy way. Mobility devices like a long white cane, dog guides and other electronic travel aids may support the movement.
Four young blind students are moving along a path in a compound surrounded by
+ Four young blind students are moving along a path in a compound surrounded by
school buildings. The children move like a chain, holding each other’s hands. After them new groups of students are following, 12
students in total. Most of them are in school uniforms. The kids are talking. Moses, who is a blind student at Kyambogo University, sits in a resource room
and tells how he learned to move around on campus using a white cane. Listen to Francis Kanubis opinion. On the issue of the human rights, unfortunately most blind people use human
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John M. Muga is a teacher at The Department of Visual Impairments, Kenya
Institute of Special Education
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ Abdallah Nyangalio is a blind tailor who has employed six blind trainees to
learn to sew. The six trainees are sitting together around three tables. Each table is equipped with a sewing machine.
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+
+
Off-screen we hear the voice of
the headmaster at the school, Francis Kinubi, who says: The way we are handling the issue of children moving around is… I
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He says: I’ve got a guide. The university employs a guide for you. So, this guide started moving me around this
university. So, I started to capture the places, I knew this was the resource room. But my first place to capture
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He is the headmaster at Salama School for the Blind, Uganda.Tanzania
Rehabiltation of people with acquired blindness
The tailor who is blind
+
The tailor who is blind
Listen to the interviews with two of his students
Listen to the interviews with two of his students
The blind basket maker
another important income for her.