The Austrian Education and the Social Ministries use the constitution in order to discriminate deaf people

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I have been so bold and used your text in a blogpost .... There is always
ignorance and incompetence to consider before you think of malice ...
Thanks,
     Gerard


On 10 April 2013 10:46, <Franz.Dotter at uni-klu.ac.at> wrote:

>  Dear colleagues,
>
> When in 2005 the Austrian Sign language was constitutionally acknowledged,
> there was a curious second sentence added: "The Austrian Sign language is
> acknowledged. All details are  determined by law". This sentence was a
> puzzle from the begin, because either it was trivial (then now one would
> add it because it should be found after every single point of the
> constitution) or there was some hidden intent behind it.
> Now I got the proof for the hidden intent by letters coming from "horrible
> jurists" of two ministries: They tell us that since there is no respective
> law, Austrian Sign Language cannot be established as a mother tongue in
> schools for deaf pupils. The jurists use the tardiness of the education
> ministry (this would have been obliged to develop realization laws for deaf
> people) as an argument that the Austrian governmen now dismisses the
> language rights of deaf people in the education process.
>
> Therefore my urgent request: Please send emails to the two responsible
> ministers, Claudia Schmied (education) claudia.schmied at bmukk.gv.at
> and Rudolf Hundstorfer (social affairs) briefkasten at bmask.gv.at using a
> text like the following:
>
> "Dear minister,
>
> I am deeply concerned that your ministry denies the right of deaf people
> to use their sign language as their mother tongue in the Austrian education
> system. Please keep to the international attitudes against deaf people and
> establish bilingual education, bilingual curricula and training for
> teachers in bilingual education in order to end the discrimination of the
> Austrian  Deaf.
>
> Yours sincerely"
>
>
> Thanks and Best Regards
>
> Franz Dotter
>
> Center for Sign Language and Deaf Communication, University of Klagenfurt
> Additionally funded by: Provincial government of Carinthia
> Head: Franz Dotter (hearing)
> 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)
> Administration: Friederike Wieser (hearing)
> Homepage: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/zgh
> Deaf server (in German): http://deaf.uni-klu.ac.at
> 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)
> Phone: ++43 (0)463 2700 /2821 (Franz Dotter),/2823 (Marlene Hilzensauer),
> /2824 (Klaudia Krammer), /2829 (Christine Kulterer), /2802 (Friederike
> Wieser)
> Email addresses: firstname.lastname at uni-klu.ac.at
>
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