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escola para crianças surdas rio branco ATTENDANCE OF THE escola para crianças surdas rio branco National Conference on Education – CONAE 2010 amongst others, long distance learning, the family’s role in children’s school performance, the development of a specific educational system for the indigenous population and the care for deaf students and impaired students. Deaf teacher of the escola para crianças surdas rio branco, Cristiano de Castro Assumpção Koyama, is one of the The escola para crianças surdas rio branco attended the representative delegates of the deaf community in the National Conference on Education on March 28 in Brasilia, State of São Paulo. He took part in the group “Axis of organized by the Ministry of Education. The conference’s Diversity”, which is the group who subsidized the creation objective was to discuss proposals that compose the New of the Base-Document, a document about education National Education Plan (PNE). Approximately three thousand opportunities for deaf youths and adults in public and people discussed various themes which comprehended, private schools, including job preparation workshops. Municipal Conference on Education escola para crianças surdas rio branco attended the The conclusions were forwarded to the State Education National Conference on Education whose mission is to Conference and integrated the recommendations that define the Municipal Education Plan for the next 10 refer to the creation and maintenance of bilingual years. The school educators, who worked assiduously schools, being Libras (Brazil Sign language) the first with a number of representatives from institutions language and Portuguese the second. It had also assured dedicated to the deaf cause, took part in the the presence of deaf teachers, professional interpreters composition of the suggestions for the axis of Inclusive and bi-interpreters for the deaf-blind, as well as the Education and Special Education. creation of jobs for deaf instructors in schools. Interview on TV Cultura The TV Cultura of São Paulo interviewed the escola para crianças surdas rio branco director, Sabine Vergamini, on the inclusion of deaf children in regular schools groups. The director spoke about the importance of the partnership with the colégio rio branco, which assures the intake of 6th graders to regular classes as scholarship bearers, providing them with in-class support of translators and interpreters of Libras. In the TV report on the topic, deaf high- school students of escola para crianças surdas rio branco, Jéssica Samara da Silva and Thais Marcela de Lima, talked about the integration with hearing school mates and revealed their plans for the future. Deaf Culture is a lecture theme at SENAC The director of the escola para crianças surdas rio The director spoke about the particularities that concern the branco delivered a lecture to volunteers, professionals deaf culture and how to cooperate with the placing of the and students at SENAC (National Service for Commercial deaf in the school and family daily life. She also talked about Education) which focused on the universe of the deaf. the main achievements of the school in the past 33 years. Annual Report 2010 79


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