Deaf Community - South Africa

Schools, organizations, and television

Articles on Deafness in South Africa

• A PubMed (Pubmed.gov) search yielded several articles, with results below in reverse chronological order.
  • Deafness in sub-Saharan Africa. Am Ann Deaf. 2003 Spring;148(1):18-24 ONline at http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/american_annals_of_the_deaf/
  • Teaching the deaf to talk. S Afr Med J. 1996 Feb;86(2):121-2
  • Signs of the times: deaf language and culture in South Africa. S Afr J Commun Disord. 1993;40:11-23
  • Toward a national policy for deaf education in the "new" South Africa. (S Afr J Commun Disord. 1991;38:19-24.)
  • Signed lexical items in an Afrikaans oral residential school for the deaf.S Afr J Commun Disord. 1986;33:56-64
  • The use of signs and the coding of prefix markers by teachers at a school for the deaf. S Afr J Commun Disord. 1986;33:64-72.
  • The Waardenburg syndrome in deaf children in southern Africa. S Afr Med J. 1983 May 7;63(19):725-8.
  • The aetiology of partial deafness in childhood. S Afr Med J. 1978 Nov 11;54(20):811-3.
  • Deafness in Black children is Southern Africa. S Afr Med J. 1977 Mar 5;51(10):309-12.
  • Aetiology of deafness in white children in the Cape. S Afr Med J. 1976 Jul 17;50(31):1193-7.
  • Childhood deafness in Cape Town. S Afr Med J. 1975 Jul 5;49(28):1135-8.
• More articles and sign language dictionaries were listed on the website of International Bibliography of Sign Language (www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/BibWeb/Lidat.acgi?KEYWORDALTID=391).
• Linguistics researcher Debra Aarons (www.bu.edu/asllrp/debbie.html)lists many articles she authored or co-authored, on sign language and deaf education.

Deaf Culture in South Africa

One thing that South Africa's deaf community has that we lack, is a deaf television program. There is a deaf TV program, Deaf TV (www.deaftv.co.za) on South African Broadcasting Corporation's SABC3 channel. Deaf TV has been successful in South Africa since 1996, and has produced original programming including dramas and soap operas.

Religion

South Africa has other churches for the deaf besides the ones run by the Institute for the Deaf. Some deaf churches are on the Deaf Sword website, www.deaf.org.za.

Companies

Handz-on Learning (www.handzonlearning.co.za/index.asp) is an online catalogue company. It provides deafness materials to the deaf community of South Africa.

Deaf Travel to South Africa

• Endeavour Safaris (www.endeavour-safaris.com/listings/hearing_disability_tours.jsp) has South African tours and safaris.
• Cape Rock Tours and Adventures provides signed tours of South Africa (caperocktours.com/homepage/index.php)
• Another Deaf Safari Tour was listed on a general tourism site (www.tourismnorthwest.co.za/tour_operators/index.html).
• Signway is a deaf travel agency in South Africa, but I could not find a website.

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