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About UNAD
Issues of Concern
Social Issues
The following are some of the social issues concerns:
- Social rights of the Deaf and the Deaf community. For example, right to marriage, communication
- Rights to hearing aids and special applications
- Sign Language interpreting services
- 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 youth and women
Working Life
The following are some of the working life concerns:
- Equality in the employment sector
- General support and legal services for working Deaf people
- Projects for unemployed Deaf people
- Need for Sign Language interpretation services at the work place, educational institutions and re-training
Sign Language
The following are some of the sign language concerns:
- Support for research and development of Sign Language
- Publication of books and videos about Sign Language
- Creating awareness on Sign Language to the hearing public
- Accessing Sign Language education for the Deaf children and adults
- Ensuring the awareness, usage and preservation of Sign Language as an independent language
Accessing Education
The following are some of the access to education concerns:
- Having qualified teachers of Sign Language
- Establishment of appropriate special schools for Deaf children
- Good training opportunities for young Deaf people
- The right to access Sign Language interpreter’s services in all forms of educational needs
- Support for establishment of special secondary schools for the Deaf and for total communication studies
Culture and Recreation
The following are some of the culture and recreation concerns:
- Establishing festivals and exhibition centers for the Deaf persons
- Formation and sustenance of Deaf choirs/dramas
- Support of games and sports activities and Associations
Public Relations
The following are some of the public relations concerns:
- To ensure a high degree of awareness of deaf people’s requirements and opportunities 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
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