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Tag: deaf

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    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    ​VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Uson umalis sa gobyerno ng may tatlong kaso sa Ombudsman

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 04, 2018 8:33 PM

    Ang mga sumusunod ay ilang impormasyon na may kaugnayan sa pinakahuling reklamo.

    deaf, Disability, drew olivar, Mocha Uson

  • English words in FSL
    Categories Top Stories

    Deaf advocates push for more inclusive education system

    Jul 25, 2015 12:53 AM

    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 […]

    deaf, PWDs, sign language

  • Categories News Yahoo

    On Deaf Awareness Week, advocates seek passage of laws toward inclusivity

    Nov 14, 2014 12:54 PM

    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 […]

    deaf, PWDs

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

    Teaching in silence

    Nov 05, 2014 5:39 PM

    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, Deaf teacher, Filipino Sign Language, Michelle Gabisan, PWD

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    Deaf children prone to sexual abuse, says NGO

    Jul 16, 2012 12:20 AM

    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.

    deaf, Gualandi, PWD, PWDs

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    K-12 to use sign language as mother tongue for deaf

    Jul 08, 2012 11:12 PM

    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, k-12, PWD, PWDs

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Deaf kids make music in school of love and hope

    Sep 25, 2010 10:38 PM

    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 […]

    deaf, PWD

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