Search for European Projects

This is a bilateral youth exchange partnership between the Northern Ireland Deaf Youth Association and SINOSZ, Hungary. The project is for deaf young people aged 16 to 25 from various social, cultural and religion backgrounds from Northern Ireland and Hungary. The project will provide deaf young people with the social, communication and educational tools to understanding the rights of deaf people, ...

Background and educational needs of deaf and hard of hearing peopleWithin European societies and educational systems sign language and bilingualeducation were suppressed for centuries. The structure of sign languages is verydifferent from that of spoken and written languages. As a result, deaf people couldn’tdevelop their mother tongue in a rich way and written text (especially literature) is very ...