VietNamNet Bridge – Ho Chi Minh City has 15 special schools for
the hearing-impaired, where currently around 2,000 students are already
enrolled.
This figure is relatively low
considering the ratio is 1:1,000 hearing-impaired people in the country.
Moreover, persons with physical disabilities have to stop studying at primary
and junior school level because there is no facility for higher education.
The year 2000 can be considered
as a milestone for the hearing-impaired as the Nippon Foundation launched a
disability support project.
The program in Vietnam provides
opportunities for secondary and tertiary education for deaf and
hearing-impaired students through the medium of sign language.
Till now, 10 students have
graduated from college, thanks to the program, and integrated in society to
work at jobs.
Earlier, there was no facility
for tertiary education in the country and hearing-impaired people had no choice
but to self-study at home after finishing primary level. They hardly made ends
meet with low pays and exhausting jobs such as waiters or waitresses, parking
lot attendants or housekeepers.
Duong Phuong Hanh, director of
the Center for Research and Education for the Deaf, said that in many countries
across the world, it is normal for deaf people to pursue a master’s degree and
participate in various activities, while Vietnam has no such advantage to offer
the physically handicapped.
Another reason is that there are
only two teacher training facilities for the hearing-impaired; one provides
preschool teachers and another primary level teachers. In addition, there is a
shortage of special tools needed to help disabled children hear.
The headmaster of a special
school for the disabled said that more than 80 hearing-aids are available in
the school, donated by international organizations, some of them in a poor
state but the school has no funds to replace them.
Accordingly, students have to
take turns to use the devices resulting in ineffective training.
A survey conducted by CED showed
that 24.1 percent of deaf people face difficulties in communicating with
strangers and 19.6 percent are upset with teachers who don’t understand their
psychology.
Another negative factor is that
enterprises would rather not employ disabled people or hearing-impaired workers
as they are used to parents love and attention and hence suffer from an
inferiority complex at their workplace. Besides, disabled people lack life
skills and tend to be pessimistic towards life.
Source: SGGP
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