Cap college school for the deaf

Tue Aug 23 06:57:11 UTC 2005

Hello Nana,

There is Deaf Philippines Directory on the web at
http://www.geocities.com/athens/9385/directry.htm

CAP COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF is in the group of TERTIARY SCHOOLS down below on the first colum.

CAP COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF+ 
149 Legaspi St., Legaspi Vill. Makati City 
892-63-95 
Contact Mrs. Antonia Blanca (Coordinator) 
cap1 at fapenet.org 

The main URL is 
http://www.cap.com.ph/
I cannot find any descriprtion about deaf education there. But they have a distance learning program and they have a school for the deaf on a floor of 
the building of their office in Makati.

My next visitation of CSB would be the end of Nnovember.

Regards,
Midori

 Nana Dumitra さんは書きました:
>Hello Midori,
>Thanks for your answer. We live quite a way off from Manila so do not
>have that much information about the situation there (or at least mostly
>very general information). That was very interesting to see in your
>mail. Do you have an address or other contact information for CAP and
>this distance learning program? I would be interested in getting more
>information about that, but my guess is that it is also using English...
>Well, maybe we can at least get some ideas.
>It would be interesting to meet you, especially since you are coming to
>the Philippines in November. At the same time we will have an intern
>here so I am not sure yet what our schedule will be like...
>I will check out the information about your exchange program from last
>time as soon as we have electricity back (big problem here, we are just
>working to get a generator set up, but it will be another week or two).
>Greetings from the Philippines,
>Nana
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>[mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] On Behalf Of
>midori at a.tsukuba-tech.ac.jp
>Sent: Donnerstag, 18. August 2005 03:11
>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Subject: RE: [sw-l] Why Sign Writing?
>
>Hello, Nana,
>
>I am much impressed by your description about complex situation of
>languages for the deaf in the Philippines. I went there twice last year
>and visited several schools in Manila, including Philippine Deaf School,
>CSB of Dela Sale, and CAP.
>
>Deaf children there are educated by English and Signed English, but few
>of them can master English. They cannot comunicate with their family who
>don't know English, either. Most of them remain semi-lingual situation.
>And at the tertiary school level, at the College of Saint Benilde (CSB)
>Dela Sale University, they began to learn Filippino Sign Language for
>the first time.... They have no chance to learn Tagalogue, their
>national language. That was what I saw and learned there in the two
>short visitations.
>
>A part of my motivation of learning SW is comparing foreign sign
>languages. Fiiippino Sign Language looks like ASL for me, but they say
>they are distinct languages. To know the differences of the languages, I
>think, SW would be helpful.
>
>In coming November, I will visit Manila again with several students and
>faculty members from our college, and in next February we will accept
>the delegation from CSB. It is interesting to see how deaf Filippino and
>deaf Japanese manage to communicate with each other.
>If you are interested in our exchanging project last time, please visit
>http://www.pen.ntid.rit.edu/newslevel2.php?a=CSB_TCT_exchange
>and
>http://www.pen.ntid.rit.edu/newslevel2.php?a=TCT_CSB_exchange_2005
>
>In Manila district, they will have much opportunity to use English. It
>is a MUST to get job oportunity there. But in the province, I feel sad
>to read your desription, "by the time they are out of school for 2 - 5
>years, most of them cannot read ANY English anymore, they are
>illiterate!!" I can imagine that. CAP school in Manila has a distance
>learnig program for the deaf. Isn't it of some help?
>
>Midori from Japan
>
>
>--- sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu ---
>
>
>>Hello Eyasu and SW list,
>>I thought that was an interesting question, Eyasu. Then it got me
>>thinking.When my husband and I lived in Romania and after that Austria
>>we had heard about SignWriting and thought it was an interesting idea,
>>but we never pursued it further. Mostly because there was no pressing
>>need - both in Romania and Austria many Deaf can read at least some of
>>the "hearing" language and that seemed to be enough.
>>Then - four years ago - we came to the Philippines, a rich country when
>>it comes to languages! There are 168 languages used in the Philippines
>>(I think only 2 - 4 are almost extinct, but the rest is really being
>>used on an every day basis!). One of the 168 happens to be Filipino
>Sign
>>Language (FSL). So which "hearing" language do you choose to write??
>>Some hearing people decided, that English would be the best way to
>write
>>for Deaf Filipinos. The idea behind it seemed logical, but the
>practical
>>application was not: these people thought, since one of the national
>>languages is English and English is also the language of higher
>>education they would help the Deaf by teaching them that language right
>>away, so they would not have to bother with two or more "hearing"
>>languages. But of course, there was a problem. Maybe I can best explain
>>it, by a practical example from our region:
>>Our region is "Bicol" there are several Bicolano dialects being used by
>>hearing people (sometimes you only travel about 5 km/2 - 3 miles) and
>>you are in another language area. The second national language (taught
>>in elementary and used by many people all over the Philippines) is
>>Tagalog. Only in high school and college English is being used as the
>>main language. Now we have the situation, that most parents of Deaf
>>people know a Bicolano dialect and Tagalog. The Deaf are taught English
>>in school and they know Sign Language. There is no communication
>between
>>most parents and their deaf children!! So these Deaf children hardly
>>have any access to information except in school. They are being taught
>>to use English for writing in school, but because no one else in their
>>surroundings uses English, by the time they are out of school for 2 - 5
>>years, most of them cannot read ANY English anymore, they are
>>illiterate!!
>>In this situation we thought about SignWriting again. I seemed like a
>>lot of work to us to learn all the symbols and rules for writing, but
>we
>>wanted to give it a try. The best surprise came after a few weeks, when
>>we had just succeeded in writing down one sentence in SW (and probably
>>not even very well :-)): we gave some of the deaf a few basic
>>instruction about SW (basic hand shapes, black and white and some of
>the
>>contact symbols - time used for teaching them: about 15 minutes). Then
>>we gave them the paper with our SW sentence. It took the Deaf about 2 -
>>3 minutes each to figure out the writing AND understand it!!! But the
>>best surprise for us were the shining faces: "This is MY language! You
>>can WRITE my language!?! Wow!" - If we were still doubtful at that
>time,
>>this was all we needed to see to convince us of the usefulness of SW
>for
>>the Deaf!!
>>I hope this gives you a bit of insight as to why we started using SW.
>>The other benefit was for myself (hearing): When I learned other sign
>>languages before (Austrian, Romanian and ASL) it always took me a long
>>time, because I could not write anything down (I think writing half a
>>page just to try to remember how to reproduce ONE sign cannot be called
>>"writing" :-)). I just need my "books and papers" to learn anything!
>Now
>>with FSL I have learned much more in a much shorter time period and not
>>only am I reproducing what I see, I can also start and analyze
>different
>>features of the language which helps me to learn it even better.
>>Long answer, sorry, once I get going, it is hard to stop:-)! I just
>have
>>to say: I love sign languages and I love SignWriting, it just seems to
>>make so much more sense!
>>Nana
>> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>[mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] On Behalf Of eyasu tamene
>>Sent: Mittwoch, 17. August 2005 14:01
>>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>Subject: [sw-l] Why Sign Writing?
>> 
>>Dearest Val, all
>>I am curius to know new things I think that is way I became interested
>>in SW.  As to my knowledge Hearing impaired people are using the
>hearing
>>ones. They don't have their own writing system.  Haven't you every
>>defended saying what if , if they continue using the existing writing
>>system? What big challenge of the hearing impaired people was resolved
>>as a result of Sign Writing? Weren't they comfortable, is it a question
>>of equality....?  I would be happy if Val of any one in the list become
>>interested in Sign Writing to tell me why you became interested.
>>Eyasu
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Midori Matsufuji  midori at a.tsukuba-tech.ac.jp