International Week of the Rights of the Deaf People September 18th – 24th 2023
The theme is ‘A World Where Deaf People Everywhere Can Sign Anywhere!”
Each day, a different theme will be from Monday to Sunday. Let’s explore each piece and reflect on this theme: How would you improve, implement, and allow us to be more inclusive and adapt a better quality of our lives in the communities?
Monday 18th September 2023
“Declaration on the Rights on the Rights of Deaf Children
I was informed of a world conference held in South Korea by the members of Deaf organisations and committee teams from the World Federation of the Deaf. They demand that global communities demonstrate how they are working towards achieving the rights of Deaf children. It is crucial to emphasise the remaining work to be done to ensure these rights are achieved for every D/deaf child in education, health, and communities. Showing support for the Declaration on the Rights of Deaf Children is imperative. Sign your name here to join me in demonstrating support – link here. https://wfdeaf.org/rightsdeafchildren/
In the past, many D/deaf babies and toddlers developed delayed language acquisition in pre- and post-education. Many parents of D/deaf children wearing cochlear implants are limited to sign language in their family partially due to the lack of training and coordination among professionals who have not been widely involved within the Deaf community.
Did you know every baby is born and begins to piece puzzles feeding on their Cognitive learning theory? The speech comes later when visual comes first; this is where babies with hearing loss or D/deaf use their eye drawn to hand movements to memorise the communication method.
There are three important cognitive theories. The three cognitive theories are Piaget’s developmental theory, Lev Vygotsky’s social-cultural cognitive theory, and the information process theory. https://www.kibin.com/essay-examples/the-three-main-cognitive-theories-and-the-theory-of-development-halzRmN8#:~:text=There%20are%20three%20important%20cognitive,and%20the%20information%20process%20theory.
Vygotsky’s social development theory asserts that a child’s cognitive development and learning ability can be guided and mediated by their social interactions. His theory (also called Vygotsky’s Sociocultural theory) states that learning is a crucially social process instead of an independent journey of discovery. http://www.gowriensw.com.au/thought-leadership/vygotsky-theory#:~:text=Vygotsky%27s%20social%20development%20theory%20asserts,an%20independent%20journey%20of%20discovery.
Vygotsky claimed that we are born with four ‘elementary mental functions’: Attention, Sensation, Perception, and Memory. Our social and cultural environment allows us to use these elementary skills to develop and gain higher mental functions
Deaf babies learn to memorise sign language through visuals quickly before speaking. The reason why D/deaf babies struggle to hear the sound even if they are unable to listen to the sound. It is a simple reason, and it benefits any D/deaf babies and children to learn sign language throughout their lives. Then, you can learn to sign with your D/deaf baby and child in the house, at school and in the communities equally.
The other children with non-verbal can communicate through sign language like the Deaf children.
https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7517-9-16
