Clarín, February 24, 2008 , Supplement Education.
paper version: here.
Photos: Pilar Molina.
city government COLOGNE FOR GUYS Nonvoice
Summer Recreation sign language
Ruben A. Seeing
Arribas talk is like having a cuddle in front. The first thing that strikes to sit down with Martin Paradiso is plasticity, coordination and speed of their movements, even when he gestures with his face. His fluency in sign language is such that Griselda Ciancio every so often asks for a break because not keep to translate. And this teaching deaf 30-year deals with an inexhaustible enthusiasm any topic, from how the Internet revolutionized his life to how much suffering caused him learn to read lips such a simple word like 'auto'. Paradiso
works together with 17 other teachers -9 deaf and hearing-8 in the colony for hard of hearing of the Government of the City that works in school Osvaldo Magnasco. Under the supervision of Griselda Ciancio, coordinator of the colony, the faculty was mixed by the summer of 167 children 4 to 20 years, two with cerebral palsy who registered here.
Among the goals he had set the colony, Paradiso particularly emphasizes one: to serve as a model of "adult deaf" to the young. He knows that his mere presence and their academic-teacher of sign language, with studies of teaching and tour guide at the zoo, serves as a reference point for some children who live in a community where it is difficult to project the future. The same view is Mariano Isa, recently graduated as a teacher of Physical Education, and who sums up the idea: "To us, it costs us a lot. So I want to convey to kids that if I could, they can. "
The voice of this young man of 28 is not perfect, but is without problems. He speaks because his family chose the school oral-reading lips to tongue sign, and took him to speech therapist from 4 to 13 years. However, to understand needs to be spoken aloud, articulating each sound good. Unlike the Paradiso, that neither hear nor speak, "his would be the model of" deaf listener. "
Eye: The label belongs to the community. As explained Ciancio, but Isa is a good coupling with the younger kids do not speak sign language as limited to the time of dealing with the largest. In this regard, according to this teacher and "bilingual listener" with more than 20 years of experience, the deaf community maintains a relentless approach: "If you talk sign language, they put you in and you're one more, if you do not leave out. " Ie outside any technological breakthrough for the hearing, the signs serve as the integrating factor of cohesion and fundamental.
Hence the importance of this colony as a meeting place, for example, Facundo Hidalgo (14). Facundo implant carries a cluck from 3 years in the auditory nerve, allowing you to talk and listen almost perfectly. However, he feels more comfortable in the deaf community that the listener, so it tends to disconnect the implant, leaving about 20 thousand dollars, and handled with his hands when he is here. Thus, he explains, is how you communicate better and feel understood by others ... As seen, the summer recess and this collective conceal a massive educational complex.
Therefore, activities such as playing ball, make plays and go to the pool mean something more than fun. Paradiso explains, as in general or even families make the effort to learn the language, that status is sign language for deaf-speaking children, this is a place to standardize the intellectual and emotional development of boys, and thus help bring down all sorts of barriers. Some will take the form of the word 'self', others whether it is possible to study in college, many of what life will be one when I grow up.
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COMPANY OF GRANDPARENTS
When kids arrive, members of the grandparents' corner table looked on, smoke on the grill and mountain of burgers, bread, lettuce and tomato. They willingly give space and help the school to organize it, which is responsible for buying food. The relationship between children and these grandparents is intense. According to Jorge Decanini (71)-the president, share a table with regularity because they celebrate together day of spring, the senior citizen or national holidays. In addition to joy, the guys usually bring drawings commemorative proud grandparents to hang on the walls of this corner where they meet to play cards, talk or eat with friends. They just know some sign another to communicate with the kids, but dominate it well: open arms to receive them as if they were his grandchildren. 
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