Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: Myanmar (Myanmar)

Created 10 April 2000, links updated monthly with the help of LinkAlarm.

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Deaf culture

UpwardsLight. (2008, June 19). Deaf victims of cyclone in Myanmar (Burma).Myanmaran flagSign Language iconPeople at Gallaudet University donated money for deaf people impacted by terrible Cyclone Nargis. The video shows people who were helped. More help is needed. See http://research.gallaudet.edu/sl

Deaf education & youth

Mary Chapman, School For The Deaf Children (Myanmar).

Phyu, TK. H. (2006, July 17-23). Internet opens new frontiers for deaf students. BEFORE the students at the Mary Chapman School for the Deaf could learn to surf the web, they had to invent a few new words. The sign language they use at the school had no symbol for "Google", or even for "internet". Now when the teacher puts her thumb and first finger on the back of her other hand, it means to hunt for information on the popular search engine. And for students who used to feel isolated by their disability, the internet suddenly opens a new world of possibilities online.

Wallis, S. (2002). Inclusion for the excluded - a pipe dream or practical necessity? Including children with learning difficulties in refugee camp schools on the Thai/Burma border. The report that follows describes an Early Intervention programme piloted in a large, well-established refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border. The camp is home for one of the ethnic groups forced to flee from Burma as a result of military oppression. The programme, funded by Consortium (a US-based NGO) and Voluntary Service Overseas (partly funded by DFID in the UK) is in its infancy but seems to be an excellent model for inclusion practice. I visited the camp in February 2002.

Deaf history and current events

Sign, gesture, & deafness in South Asian & South-West Asian histories: A bibliography with annotation and excerpts from India; also from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma / Myanmar, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Persia / Iran, & Sri Lanka.

Myanmar Sign Language

19th Newsletter - APCD Missions. Scroll down to "Mission to Myanmar: 5-8 February 2007". In 2006, APCD advised the DSW to draft a project proposal for a standardized sign language to promote social participation of the deaf community and facilitate closer cooperation among various stakeholders (e.g., DSW, schools for the deaf, deaf people) through their collaborative work. APCD had facilitated former deaf participants and their deaf peers to be involved in the project formulation and work closely with DSW.

Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies (JISLS) - Research activities by KAMEI Nobutaka. Asian Deaf Friendship Fund visited Myanmar. In: Japanese Deaf News (Japanese Federation of the Deaf). No.640 (February 1, 2004). 1, 4./ Deaf movements, Deaf education and sign language in Myanmar. In: Quarterly MIMI (Japanese Federation of the Deaf). No.103 (2004 spring): 76-79. Kamei, Nobutaka. 2004. / Sign language in Myanmar: One language or two? In: Foreign Sign Department, Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies ed. Sign languages of Asia (Asia no shuwa) Vol.5. Tokyo: Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies. 10-19.

Sign, gesture, & deafness in South Asian & South-West Asian histories: A bibliography with annotation and excerpts from India; also from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma / Myanmar, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Persia / Iran, & Sri Lanka.

Myanmar Sign Language dictionaries

Oo, S. Y. M. New sign language dictionary launched. Students at Mary Chapman School for the Deaf attend the launch ceremony for the sign language dictionary on December 1. Pic: Aung Tun Win THE launching ceremony for Myanmar's first standardised sign language dictionary was held at Mary Chapman School for the Deaf in Yangon's Dagon township on December.

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