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About DESEAL
About DESEAL
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DESEAL (Deaf Senior Education for Active Living) is a project with 4 partners from Italy, Austria, France and Belgium. The project promotes equality, non-discrimination and diversity for older Deaf people through the provision of accessible digital information.
How? By providing training materials for deaf seniors to enable them to access information and acquire the digital skills required in the modern world, especially in the field of finance, banking and social security.
This means that Deaf seniors can find support and information online in their first language – Sign Language. As well as Italian, Austrian, French and International Sign language, we use plain language, pictures, graphics and animation to make the information easier to understand.
The project also supports adult educators and trainers, providing them with training in the specific needs of older students and older people with disabilities, as well as adapted training methods and materials to appeal to Deaf seniors.
Partners
Partners
Istituto dei Sordi di Torino or the Turin Institute for the Deaf is a non-governmental organisation founded in the nineteenth century in order to provide support for people with hearing problems (deaf, blind, and deafblind) and to train their teachers. The Institute is located at Pianezza in the North-West of Italy and provides various types of support including daily care, assisted housing, assisted learning, therapy workshops (painting, cooking, cinema, sporting activities), VET education of people with disabilities. The Institute is highly experienced in Erasmus +projects.
For more information about Istituto dei Sordi di Torino: www.istitutosorditorino.org (in Italian and English).
equalizent was founded in 2004 and has 4 main areas of focus: people who are deaf; people who are hard of hearing; Sign Language; and diversity management. equalizent’s training and company concept are unique in Europe. Through various training and advisory services, equalizent supports people who are deaf and hard of hearing, as well as people with other disabilities, to find work.
A third of staff members are deaf. This means that deaf trainees are trained by deaf peers. equalizent organises the annual Diversity Ball – an accessible event which takes place in Vienna, Austria. equalizent also founded HANDS UP, an interactive exhibition, raising awareness about the Deaf world.
For more information about equalizent: www.equalizent.wien (in German, Austrian Sign Language and English).
IRSAM was founded 160 years ago in Marseille on the initiative of Father Louis-Toussaint Dassy, concerned with people with sensory disabilities. He then created the Religious Congregation of the Sisters of Mary Immaculate.
IRSAM supports people with disabilities, mainly those with sensory impairments, in specialised (sheltered) workspaces, in mainstream settings, as well as in learning and training centres.
IRSAM manages 25 facilities and services in Provence Alpes Côte d´Azur, Rhône-Alpes and Reunion.
IRSAM currently supports more than 1,350 children, adolescents, adults and older people with disabilities, and employs more than 1,000 people (the equivalent of 830 full-time positions).
IRSAM, TAKING CARE AT EVERY STAGE OF LIFE.
For more information about Association IRSAM: www.irsam.fr (in French)
The European Union of the Deaf (EUD) is an organization representing deaf sign language users at the European level. It has the mandate of the National Deaf Associations to work towards a more socially cohesive, sustainable, and accessible Europe for deaf citizens realizing their inherent human rights. Its main objectives are the recognition of the right to use an indigenous sign language, empowerment through communication and information and equality in education and employment.
For more information about EUD: www.eud.eu (in English).