Signs for a Good Education

(Sydney, October 18, 2013) -- Deaf children have a right to a quality education, like all other children, in a language and environment that maximizes their potential. In this video, in conjunction with a global conference in Sydney on equality for deaf people, Human Rights Watch shows some of the challenges faced by deaf children and young people, and the opportunities sign language education offers them.

For more information: http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/10/17/offer-deaf-children-education-sign-language

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it's very important to have because she can now be communicating
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to other people while she was at the whole there was no sane and we've been
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through everyday Europcar
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school yes the six-year-old are so happy to finally be able to express themselves
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and communicate with others
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it is only by learning sign language that deaf children can
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fully communicate today deaf children and young people worldwide are too often
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denied their right to education
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this is because of a lack of teachers well trained in sign language
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and a lack of awareness by parents that their children can
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and have a right to go to school on same language
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ease mandatory you these deaf people at Winterland
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we don't if they cannot so it is a mother language
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that he helped them to communicate with other so without these it demeans the
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communication will be a 20
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place well by the team tutsi
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okay unless that when it's possible
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for the Deaf to learn anything but what should happen is that they should how
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people all can communicate with them
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veteran people can use Sen language
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people who understand the lead the in the act
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you look at the office how the a communicating them only
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me the two just come here and they teach her and Amanda
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and it is very important that we have
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landing opportunities so that they also doing the at the citizens
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on your own making them independent it will support
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at the own families I would wish to become a teacher
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teaches
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morning children nice coons I would like to become
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a marxist I would like to wish to become a doctor
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all a lawyer majority will be other qualities
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when ninety percent the actin have no support
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for the deaf people for example myself I E
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what I struggled that hides to get accounting
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had passed where in mathematics but there was no college which was accepting
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so even go to invest in
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that the snow interpreter I do for a pass on
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who can help me to interpret are because
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it is hard for meet for this something which is up in both
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and interpret all that but they didn't do something that would hun class
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we don't have an interpreter but
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who is hitting in
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will ask director to explain up
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course said the
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child
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being tonight the human right to education and family which has long term
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consequences
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adaptogen do not develop the ability to communicate
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their unable to learn and get jobs and isolated within their communities