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Deaf advocates push for more inclusive education system
Text and video by GRAZIELLE CHUA and VERLIE RETULIN AS a Deaf student, Ana Kristina Arce had to transfer from one school to another, trying to find the best one to accommodate her needs—a costly undertaking that consumed both her time and effort. Now a professor at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB)’s
On Deaf Awareness Week, advocates seek passage of laws toward inclusivity
BY JAKE SORIANO WHEN President Benigno S. Aquino III delivered his inaugural address on live television in June 2010, he said people know how it feels to have a government that is “bulag at bingi.” Television screens had no insets for sign language interpreters then, and deaf Filipinos had to wait for the transcript of the
Teaching in silence
By JOHN PAUL ECARMA MAUNES CEBU CITY— It is a typical morning rush in a community public school in Barangay Bulacao, Pardo in Cebu City. Students lugging heavy schoolbags head towards their classrooms in a hurry, some with parents in tow. In one particular classroom, the scene is even more chaotic: 15 students, aged 14
Deaf children prone to sexual abuse, says NGO
CEBU CITY—A nongovernmental organization working to prevent sexual abuse among Deaf children has recorded six cases of rape in June, the highest incidence on a per-month basis since it started documenting the problem last year.
K-12 to use sign language as mother tongue for deaf
By MIKHAIL FRANZ E. FLORES Now that the K to 12 system of education is being enforced in the country and native languages have begun to be used as medium of instruction from kindergarten to Grade 3, deaf children will also get the chance to use their mother tongue: sign language.
Deaf kids make music in school of love and hope
By KIM ARVEEN M. PATRIA MUSIC broke the silence of a humid Monday afternoon in a small neighborhood in San Pablo City. Inside a school gymnasium along a poorly paved road, a rondalla, an ensemble of string instruments, rehearsed melodic pieces for everyone to hear—everyone except those playing them. Those who held the guitars, the
