Disability is not Inability

:: Kenya Society for Deaf Children (KSDC)

The International Deaf Children's Society
Dandora Deaf Group
Nairobi Family Support Services

:: LEARNING SIGN LANGUAGE

The programme made good use of an existing Deaf people’s organisation – the Dandora Deaf Group, to provide the trainers for Sign Language classes for parents. This also gave parents an opportunity to meet deaf role models as well as learn Sign Language from a native user of the language.

The training focused on learning language that was useful for the families and on revision and repetition. However most families felt that 3 months was not a long enough time to learn and would have preferred the lessons to last longer.

However one drawback was that the young deaf trainers used English as their main written language, which they had learnt at schools for the deaf. Parents requested written information in Kiswahili as they were mostly not able to read or understand English. A trainer / translator with spoken Kiswahili would have improved communication in the classes.

Nevertheless achieving a level of communication with their children that they had not previously, had changed parents' opinions about their deaf children.

:: SYNOPSIS

:: IDENTIFYING AND MOTIVATING PARENTS

:: LEARNING SIGN LANGUAGE

:; BEYOND SIGN LANGUAGE - BECOMING A GROUP

:: LEARNING POINTS

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