UZ students commemorate International Deaf Awareness Week

• Published date: 24 September 2022
• Publication title: The Herald

Reginald ChirenjeYouth Interactions Writer This year's International Week of deaf people runs from 19 to 25 September. It is a time where people come together to recognise and celebrate the deaf community.

This year's celebration's theme is "Building Inclusive Communications For All". It's a time for deaf people to feel connected to different communities and it helps them to connect with the hearing people.

People can become more educated about how to communicate with the deaf, contributing to positive change and breaking down stereotype barriers on such special days. University of Zimbabwe students from the Faculty of Sciences have been offering communication services within the deaf community, interacting and creation of authography medical dictionaries to be used in the medical domain.

The students having identified problems of communication within the medical domain, it lead them to come up with such a brilliant idea which supports inclusivity. True or correct diagnosis starts from the case history, which makes the language of paramount importance in which the deaf must not be relegated.

Science students having been motivated by their "Change Maker Award Winner" Mr Matende, they are currently complying medical terms together with Sunrise Sign Language Academy making efforts to come up with a Sign Language Medical dictionary. Such efforts are being made as a way of bridging the communication gap between the deaf patients and the hearing medical practitioners.

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