Handbook helps nurses better support hearing impaired
The booklet, along with a
Vietnamese-subtitled DVD on life skills and sign language, was issued by
the Centre for Research and Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
(CED), the only social organisation for the deaf in Vietnam .
It shapes part of a project enriching teaching and learning documents
for people who have problems with hearing, sponsored by the
non-governmental Education for Development (EFD).
The brochure provides information on ways of communication used by
hearing-impaired people and a number of steps to assist them in studying
and protecting their ears.
Additional documents
should be made available for the hearing impaired to support their
future social integration and independent life-leading, said Director of
the centre Duong Phuong Hanh, who is also Secretary General of
International Federation of Hard of Hearing People (IFHOH) and President
of the Asia-Pacific Federation of the Hard of Hearing and Deafened
(APFHD).
Vietnam has more than 1 million
hearing impaired people, including over 400,000 children of school age.
The country houses 70 schools or centres that cater for people with
hearing problems, and these are mainly found in big cities.-VNA