The Landmark Project

 

In order to improve the educational standards and practices of the schools for hearing-impaired the Senzor Foundation started in 2000 a multi-year project entitled Landmark. The initiator of this project is a professional teacher and social worker, who successfully graduated from her university studies in spite of her hearing disability. In the past years she had the opportunity to experience in her day to day work as an educator of individual deaf children the enormous advantages of personalized teaching methods

Unfortunately, her and her students' case is a rather exceptional one. Due to the malfunctioning of Romanian educational system, the great majority of deaf young people can not hope even to enter an university, let alone to finish it. The special schools for hearing-impaired children in Romania are provided with extremely small budgetary funds, and therefore are able to apply modern teaching methods only to a limited extent. The pupils studying in such schools experience huge disadvantages which are only aggravating the negative consequences of their disability.

 The beneficiaries of this project will be children who are educationally and socially disadvantaged due to their reduced hearing capacity. The project's aim is to attenuate and overcome these disadvantages as much as possible:

- assist deaf children and youth in dealing with their special educational problems and to provide them with hearing aids and other special equipment

- help the integration of deaf children into their own families and to prepare parents who have children with hearing disabilities for their special educational roles

 

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