How to Help Small Deaf Indonesian Boy?
I live in Indonesia, and there is a deaf boy in my neighborhood. I would guess he is around seven years old, he breaks my heart. There is no deaf education or anything here, he can't talk or sign or anything. I suppose he can some how communicate his needs with his mother but even that is very very limited. I want to do something for him but I don't even know where to start. I think sign language wouldn't really benefit him because no one else would know it. I researched lip reading and it seems awfully difficult. I had him tracing the letters of his name today but I don't even know it that is helpful. Is there anywhere I can get information to help this child?
My response was that there a few schools in Indonesia that deaf children could attend: Rotary Club Bali. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
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try contacting that school you mentioned. otherwise, it’s always good to teach children a skill if anything at all.
How about teaching him how to cook?
Dog Food,
Kinda demeaning to make the suggestion for this deaf Indoneisan boy to learn some cooking skills, instead of basic educational foundation how to read and write and calacutate.
I was kinda appalled about knowing that this Muslim country lack the educational system to keep citizens to be the agent of literary and potential. The whole country ought to spend more on education than preoccupying with the religion issue and exploit their own people for corporate gains.
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLM,
It wasn’t my intention to be demeaning. I still think that the kid should be taught skills if he doesn’t get the chance to read and write. Cooking is a basic skill everyone should know and anyone can teach.
Also please don’t tell me that i’m demeaning him by encouraging cooking then go 180 degrees and saying the obvious that Muslims are often religious fanatics and have a weak education structure. This is a big reason why basic skills are a good start because other topics are not readily available.
try to admit in special school for hearing impaired
Hi! I know it’s heartbreaking to see a deaf child isolated in his community.
I did a web search and found a few places that may help. Like you said, Rotary Club Bali provides some support to the SLB-B (The Deaf School) Nusa Dua Bali. The website is http://www.rotarybali.org/vs/slbb.htm. I also found the Yayasan Kemanusiaan Ibu Pertiiw http://www.ykip.org/hear_impaired.asp. They provide a list of resources including hearing aids, list of schools, and other projects. They have contact information. They may be able to lead you to the right group that can help this little boy. Good luck!
There are currently four Special Needs School for the Deaf in Bali: Jimbaran (state school), Tabanan, Singaraja and Sidhakarya in Denpasar.-the latter three private schools.
I support the huminatarian efforts of YKIP in Bali to assist deaf children. Please review their web site http://www.ykip.org and look under childrens hearing projects. Contact them for more information.