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For 2025, the theme of the campaign is "Empower yourself" encouraging individuals to take steps to ensure good hearing in all stages of life.This focus is a new angle of the theme of the 2024 World Hearing Day "Changing mindsets" which encouraged addressing challenges posed by societal misperceptions and stigmatizing mindsets associated with hearing difficulties.
The PFD aims to serve all members of the deaf community. The organization's main goals are the following: Equal opportunities in employment and access to quality education as vocational rehabilitation services, to telecommunication systems and mass media from the government and the private sectors, on social services and in the public/mass transport system;
There are many factors that contribute to the preservation of a language, including documentation, instruction to children and adults, cultural awareness, and national recognition. Here are the Philippines' resources for each factor: Documentation: There are many websites and resources online to learn Filipino Sign Language vocabulary.
International Week of the Deaf (IWDeaf) is celebrated annually across the world during the last full week of September since 2009. [1] [2] In 2018, it was celebrated together with the official International Day of Sign Languages, declared by the United Nations (UN), [3] for the first time.The World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), its national associations, and their affiliates all over the world ...
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As you dive into your New Year’s resolutions, taking precautions to protect yourself from a quartet of infectious diseases can lessen your odds of starting off 2025 sick.
The retailer announced back in February 2024 plans to shut down 150 "underproductive" Macy's store locations by 2026. The plan "is designed to return the company to sustainable, ...
An introduction to Deaf culture in American Sign Language (ASL) with English subtitles available. Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.