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October 19, 2005
TRAINING REPORT for Leaders' Course on 12 October
Visit : Tokyo Independent Living Support Center (October 12, 2005)
All the participants had a chance to visit Tokyo Independent
Living Support Center for the Deaf on Wednesday.
The purpose of this center is to promote social participation,
to provide services for a life-long education and to support
self-help and independent living of persons with hearing impairments.
Mr. Daisuke Ochi, Secretary General of Tokyo Federation of the Deaf
lectured on history and ovements persons with hearing impairments.
Two issues Mr. Ochi would like to realize are as follows:
- Sending a persons with hearing impairments to the Diet
- The offcial recognition of sign language in legislation
Nine participants experience the relay interpretation for the first time.
What Mr. Ochi used sign language and sign language was interpreter
into Japanese and then Japanese into English. This year we don't have
any participant with hearing impairment, so our daily lectures are only
interpreted into English when it's necessary.
It was a good experience for all of us to think of the real meaning of
inclusive society.
TRAINING REPORT in the JICA friends Web Site for more detail.
Posted by jicafriends at October 19, 2005 04:25 PM