SOCIAL ISSUES
Social rights of the Deaf and the Deaf community e.g. right to Marriage, communication, participation etc.
- Right to access hearing Aids and special attention.
- Right to use Sign Language Interpreting services in courts . hospitals, etc
- Support for families with Deaf children e.g. counseling and career guidance.
- Support for Deaf parents with Hearing children.
- Economic support to Deaf people.
- Support for Deaf people with multiple handicaps and special needs like Deaf blind, Deaf women, Orphaned Deaf children.
- Right to access information on Reproductive health, AIDS etc
- Right to access driving permits,
Equality in the labour and employment sector.
- General support and legal services for working Deaf people.
- Projects for unemployed Deaf people.
- Needs for Sign Language interpretation services at the work place, Educational institutions and training centres.
Support to research and development of Sign Language
- Publications of books and video in Sign Language.
- Create awareness on Sign Language to the Hearing public.
- Accessing Sign Language education for the Deaf children and adults. Ensure the awareness, usage and preservation of Sign Language as an independent language.
Having qualified teachers and skilled in Sign Language.
- Establishment of appropriate special schools for Deaf children
- Good training opportunities for young Deaf people.
- The right to access Sign Language interpretation services in all forms of educational settings.
- Support the establishment of special secondary schools for Deaf and for total communication studies.
- Securing opportunities for Deaf Teachers in schools for the Deaf.
- Establish festivals and exhibition centres for Deaf persons.
- Formation and sustenance of deaf choirs /dramas of Deaf people.
- Support of games and sporting activities of the Deaf people.
- Right to integrate in socio and cultural festivals
- Advocate and lobby for more Sign Language programmes on Television, radio and newspapers.
- Support for the Deaf film Production.
- Right to use modern technology like the web cam.
- To ensure a high degree of awareness of Deaf people’s needs and rights amongst decision makers, opinion leaders, families, the media and general public.
- To ensure that Deaf people have excellent access to information about the society in and out of their community,
