Awareness Programs
January 11th, 2010
This program which has as an objective to promote the image of deaf people incorporates activities such as:
- Talks through media
- A book about deafness, written by Dr. Hussein Ismail, founder of the LCD, deaf himself, which is being distributed to the public for free (by the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs and the National Association for the Rights of the Disabled)
- Activities in regular kindergarten and primary settings (experiment, telling a story interacting with a deaf puppet and introducing a deaf adult teaching some signs).
- National Campaign for awareness on Early Detection and Early Intervention Program, in collaboration of the Ministry of Health and the local schools in different settings.
- 4 Books on Lebanese Sign Language, written by Professor Roumanos and Dr. Ismail. The first book, based on a 3-year research and conduction, has been inserted into CD’s and distributed for free, as well as can be found in the Internet. A DVD disk, with further lessons and information, will be completed during the first months of 2010.

