Educational Video Library in Sign Language

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Summary

Development of educational videos for deaf students and adults in Argentine Sign Language, with subtitles in the fields of: Spanish, Argentine sign language, economy, Argentine history and geography. progress reportread updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $498 was raised for this project.

Received $498 from 8 donations from people like:

Joseph
D.J. Dore
Shalom
Robert
(Anon.)

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In Argentina, teachers of the deaf do not use sign language. Thus, deaf students have no access to a complete school curriculum. The deficient education places the deaf community in a critical situation. Deaf students abandon school or finish their schooling at a very low academic level. Their simplified curricular program makes integration into high school very hard, especially in the fields of language and social sciences. Beneficiaries: deaf students, deaf adults and teachers.

Activities

Designing of videos, translation into sign language, training of interpreters, video recording and editing, copying and distribution.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $498

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $498.  The original project funding goal was $8,500.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Deaf students will raise their academic level, which will enable them to continue their superior education. These videos will show that deaf people are perfectly able to learn, and that the difficulties they face are related to lack of access.

Project Message

"I strongly believe that access to information makes people free. Information in sign language is part of recognizing deaf people's linguistic rights and their active participation in society."
- Silvana Veinberg, Executive Director

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Silvana Veinberg,
Member of the educative committee
Gurruchaga 2459 2º F
Hidalgo 1753
Capital Federal, Buenos Aires 1425
Argentina
011 5411 4832 4581
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Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Canales Asociación Civil Logo Canales Asociación Civil
Gurruchaga 2459 2º F
Hidalgo 1753
Capital Federal, Buenos Aires 1425
Argentina
011 5411 4832 4581

Learn more about Canales Asociación Civil and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Argentina and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Argentina, read the Human Development Report on Argentina or the Wikipedia entry for Argentina.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on September 06, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 29, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

Thank you!!

By Silvana Veinberg - Project Leader, September 06, 2007 05:52 PM

Educative material for deaf children needs to be developed in sign language. “El sueño de Tomás” (Thomas’ dream) is the first videostory in Argentine sign language (LSA) for children 4 to 7 years of age. It includes eight interactive games with explanations in sign language related to different parts of the story.

Although the video is all signed, thanks to the funds received from GlobalGiving, we added a booklet that accompanies the CD which includes:

--A brief description of the objectives of this video
--The translation of the story into Spanish
--Activities for the adults to play with the children

The main objective of this booklet is to enable hearing people (parents, teachers, brothers and sisters) to participate in this experience and support the deaf child.


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