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<DIV>Maybe I'm to silly, but after having created my account, I could not find an overview concerning the consultation, just found one question and then two others elsewhere. Can anyone help?</DIV>
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<DIV>Related to the consultation: To put one very important point, namely language development: doctors, speech therapists etc. signal a potential big problem if a hearing child does not reach the 50 words limit with 2 years of age and demand urgent action not to create language and cognition delays or deficits. For deaf children there is no such effort. On the contrary: Many "experts" tell the parents: "Just wait, language will emerge some time later". We have to overcome this split thinking: Also deaf children have the right to develop their language in the same life period as hearing children do. As long as we do not reach this goal of "language development for deaf children in the sensible phases", there will be massive developmental delays.</DIV>
<DIV>To put another analogy which is not taken up to now: All linguists stress the importance of allowing/assisting migrant children in using and developing also their mother/family language for their future identity and language competences. But this is not taken earnest for deaf children: They are kept away from sign language which they could (not must!) choose as their mother or preferred language. So they are also broken in identity as they are only forced to accept that they will be less good spoken language users for their whole life.</DIV>
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<DIV>Center for Sign Language and Deaf Communication, University of Klagenfurt<BR>Additionally funded by: Provincial government of Carinthia<BR>Head: Franz Dotter (hearing)<BR>Collaborators: Elisabeth Bergmeister (deaf), Silke Bornholdt (deaf), Luzia Gansinger (hearing), Simone Greiner-Ogris (hearing) Andrea Grilz (hearing, on maternity leave), Christian Hausch (deaf), Marlene Hilzensauer (hearing), Klaudia Krammer (hearing), Christine Kulterer (hearing), Andrea Lackner (hearing), Anita Pirker (deaf), Nathalie Slavicek (hard of hearing), Natalie Unterberger (deaf)<BR>Administration: Friederike Wieser (hearing)<BR>Homepage: <A href="http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/zgh">http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/zgh</A><BR>Deaf server (in German): <A href="http://deaf.uni-klu.ac.at">http://deaf.uni-klu.ac.at</A><BR>Fax: ++43 (0)463 2700 992891 (Elisabeth Bergmeister), /992892 (Silke Bornholdt), /992893 (Christian Hausch), /992894 (Anita Pirker), /992895 (Nathalie Slavicek), /992896 (Natalie Unterberger), /992802 (Friederike Wieser)<BR>Phone: ++43 (0)463 2700 /2821 (Franz Dotter),/2823 (Marlene Hilzensauer), /2824 (Klaudia Krammer), /2829 (Christine Kulterer), /2802 (Friederike Wieser)<BR>Email addresses: <A href="mailto:firstname.lastname@uni-klu.ac.at">firstname.lastname@uni-klu.ac.at</A><BR><BR><BR>>>> "Albert Bickford" <albert_bickford@SIL.ORG> 3/25/2013 5:36 >>><BR>Dear colleagues:<BR><BR>(Before you get upset about the use of the word "disabled" on this email list, please read on!)<BR><BR>I have just become aware that the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and UNICEF are beginning preparations for a high-level meeting on disability and development this September. They have organized an online forum for preliminary discussion of the matter. So far, the special perspective of deaf people and sign language linguists has not been represented. As a result, there is a distinct possibility that approaches and strategies proposed for persons with disabilities generally may be misapplied to deaf people, ignoring the crucial role that sign language plays in the lives of deaf people and deaf communities. <BR><BR>I believe that people on this forum may want to express their views in the online consultation that is currently taking place. See the email quoted below for details on how to participate.<BR><BR>Please note that discussion closes in just a couple days, so if you want to say something, act now.<BR><SPAN style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline !important; FONT: 14px/20px Lato, 'Trebuchet
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