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"Holiday of understanding" on Valentine's Day

14 February 2020 of the year completed the development of the educational program of the training course "Sign language as a means of communication" 11 listeners. Led by the author of the training course, associate professor Department of Correction and Development Technologies, Irina Kuzminichny Rusakovich the participants ("Second graders") of the educational program studied sign language at a basic level.

The group of listeners studied students Minsk State Linguistic University (Dmitrieva Anna, Ladyzhnikova Alexandra, Chumakova Diana and others.) who are practicing foreign language teachers in special schools for children with hearing impairments, educators (Dyatlova Evgeniya, GUO "Special nursery-kindergarten No. 469), full-time and part-time students Education Institute of Inclusive Education BSPU (Jin Oksana, Login Ekaterina, Странковская Елизавета, The back of the head Elizabeth, Ermolaeva Anastasia, Sheleg Anastasia and others.)

Traditionally, native speakers were included in the learning and debriefing process sign language. Experts, confirmed the readiness and ability entry-level graduates to be in contact with deaf people,  become:

  • schoolchildren and graduates of the State Educational Institution "Special General Education School No. 14 for children with hearing impairment g. Minsk "and State Educational Institution" Minsk College of Electronics " – Korneenko Alexandra, Yakubovich Olga together with a guest from St. Petersburg, Poplavsky Peter,
  • BSAI students and employees of RDK BelOG them. N.F. Sharko - Shashura Anton, Bluzhina Anastasia, Teslovskaya Victoria,
  • student of BSPU Galushko Polina.

Participants of the intercultural interactions were able to try their hand at gesture communication in various forms: conversations on the topics covered (School, Health, Nature, Feelings, City, etc.), interview, dialogues, polylogue, interactive games, analysis of the difficulties of written communication of the deaf. Big interest triggered the execution of a task on a closed picture in pairs "hearing-deaf": listeners and guests explained to each other the meaning and plot of the closed images.

The event was attended by students 3 course, students in the specialty "Deaf-pedagogy". Together with participants of the Festival, they learned and performed a song with an artistic sign translation "Millions", which our students share with host guests sign language Korneenko Alexandroi, Teslovskaya Victoria plan to show at the exclusive festival "Pulse of Life". The festival will take place 22 February 2020 years in g. Osipovichi.

The audience also prepared concert numbers "You are so beautiful" and "Everything is in your hands", and at the end of the evening, we presented our wishes to the guests in an artistic sign language translation of the song.

A special feature of this holiday was its holding on Valentine's Day and birthday greetings in this day of our listenerValentine Шелестова, which the is a graduate of Moscow State Linguistic University. I helped to film the whole event and the dialogue was revived by nine-year-old Anastasia, which is a story to all participants, what her mother Matveychik-Zubko Hope – active listener courses, is raising four children!

По итогам общения и понимания гости торжественно поздравили слушателей с освоением второго этапа школы жестового языка и вручили им сертификаты и справки об обучении установленного образца.   

All participants in the Feast of Understanding expressed their willingness to continue studying sign language (in-depth), communication with its speakers, and interest and great desire to expand contacts and acquaintance with the unique subculture of the deaf.

We thank all our guests and listeners for the positive, creation, activity and joy of communication!

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