Deaf Awareness Week, November 8-14, 2009

November 6, 2009 in Deaf Experiences, Special Announcements
Tags: Deaf Awareness Week, Department of Education

This entry is to shout out the yearly celebration of Deaf Awareness Week in the Philippines.
The Department of Education issued a memorandum to all Bureau Directors, Regional Directors Schools Division/City Superintendents, Heads, Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Schools Special Education Centers and schools with deaf in pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 829 dated [...]

Inclusive education, is it fit for the deaf?

October 15, 2009 in Deaf Experiences, Discrimination Issues, Laws on Disability, Sign Language, deaf culture
Tags: deaf education, Department of Education, inclusive education, Sign Language, Special Education, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

This issue has been discussed and debated countless times with hearing people as protagonists. We have been dictating education to them since “education” was invented. Deaf education in the Philippines started more than 100 years ago. Has there been an improvement since then? Don’t we think it’s about time that the deaf people should be more involved in these discussions? It’s their rights that we’re securing, not ours. I hope that when the people from the government especially from the Department of Education start making in-depth discussions about inclusive education, they should at least give the deaf people a chance to be heard.

How disaster prepared are our government websites?

October 3, 2009 in Anything Filipino
Tags: Andy Bautista Philippine Star, Department of Education, Department of Public Works and Highways, Department of Transportation and Communications, facebook, Government Service Insurance System, national Disaster Coordinating Council, Philippine National Red Cross

As my beloved Philippines is again buckling down from an impending “super typhoon” after we were hit very hard by the previous one a week ago, we must try to assess the situation in order to prepare for it in the future.
Dean Andy Bautista’s column in Philippine Star enumerated how we can better deal [...]

DepEd to strengthen Special Education

January 25, 2009 in Deaf Experiences, Discrimination Issues
Tags: Department of Education, Jesli Lapus, Marikina City, Quezon City, Special Education

After reading this news article posted in People’s Journal Online Edition today, I felt it’s good to put it in my blog as a living proof that the Department of Education has promised not to neglect the special education programs.
Hearing impairment is one of those disabilities that form part of the special education system. This [...]