To provide a more inclusive public service for all, especially for the deaf community, the Pasig City government held its first-ever Deaf Sensitivity and Basic Filipino Sign Language (FSL) training for its frontline employees from various offices and departments. Around 70 employees joined the...
The concert “Mga Arya’t Kundiman” featured performances by excellent talents, and Filipino Sign Language (FSL) and Deaf students. It was held on Sept. 7 at YSpace at the Yuchengco Museum in Makati and presented by HearLife-Verein, which helps Deaf children. HearLife-Verein partner...
The Sunday Mass at the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros will now have a sign language interpreter. Manila Cathedral FB In a Facebook post, the Manila Cathedral said this is for their 8 a.m. Mass. "We are glad to announce that our 8 a.m. Mass every Sunday will have a sign language interpreter for our...
And they say it’s not a copy of existing gloves invented years ago A group of college students at Camarines Sur Polytechnic College went viral on Facebook last June 28, 2021, for their wearable tech invention: gloves that can convert Filipino sign languages into voice speech in real time. The...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is calling for a legislative inquiry on the status of the use Filipino sign language (FSL) as a language of instruction for the deaf under the under the K to 12 basic education system. The chairman of the Senate basic education committee filed a resolution for this...