Listen Up

Fri, Dec 15, 2017 12:12 PM

Our motivation
At present, more than 120,000 people in Bulgaria have various degrees of hearing loss. A large part of them rely mainly on sign language as a means of daily communication and the need for professional sign language interpreters is ever growing.

How did everything start?
Back in 2011 we started a campaign to improve the condition at the the Bulgarian Secondary School with kindergarten for Deaf children “Prof.Decho Denev and to
focuses public attention on the challenges people who are hard of hearing face and raises the Bulgarian public’s awareness of hearing health. We were participants in funds raising for the new “Kids Corner” in the school. It is the only one in Bulgaria that is currently operating and that offers full boarding for children all over the country. In 2013 we donated video materials and spent one day in watching cartoons with the kids. Visiting the boarding school we realized in what misery they have to live and what poor educational environment they have, missing all modern techniques that the other developed European countries use to teach deaf children. We decided that this broke the equal opportunity for life and cut all chances of that people for normal life. Bulgarian Deaf Federation cannot help as much as they want due to the economic situation in the country. So we decided to provide more information for the society about these people and show them at loud and speak for their actual needs.

Description of the project:
From March 2016 we want to continue our initiative in the Bulgarian Secondary School with kindergarten for Deaf children “Prof.Decho Denev” by

  • Sponsoring purchase of specialized hadrware and software for creating a Learning Center which will facilitate the education process
  • Software Visible speech, and Видимая речь.for the lessons
  • Gesture Transformer
  • Crystal Lamps for the Room
  • Video Projectors and interactive boards
  • Tablets
  • Video Dictionaries
  • Learning the basics of the sign language in order to communicate effectively/easily in the meetings with deaf children
  • Visiting the school with different initiatives
  • Playing games
  • Cooking
  • Painting
  • Watching films
  • Organizing lectures
  • Photographing

The learning and one of the visit will be organized during first official visit of Rotaract Brussels Coudenberg International

Results:
The renovation of the Modern classroom with up to date software and video technique
will

  • Facilitate the tutoring process by helping the educated young teachers and deaf children to have better communicational environment for their classes.
  • Motivate the educated young teachers and deaf children to develop education process