The first and second day of the Egyptian sign language first and second level course examinations to graduate the second batch of the Egyptian Sign Language Course students from Ain Shams University and the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center were successfully completed.
The aim of these courses is to prepare human cadres of Egyptian sign language translators to deal with deaf and hearing impaired in Egyptian universities for the first time in Egypt.
And also to enable the state to rely on them in the coming years to complement the course of work in Egyptian universities as a whole and in particular to provide departments of students affairs in the colleges with the skills of dealing with students with special needs and hearing impair to facilitate dealing with them and integrate them with the university community to benefit from their abilities in serving our Egyptian society.
The course also included several key themes including Psychology of Deafness, Types of Deafness, The problems of the deaf and their relationship with society, And how to deal with deaf and hearing impaired and how to use different movements and gestures of the body and how to express the different ideas as well as the public, private, academic and interpretation signs language rules.
This is provided through the framework of the cooperation protocol between Ain Shams University and the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, which aims to serve the Egyptian society so that Egypt leaps off strongly in the future.