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Welcome to Signes de sens’ website !

Signes de sens works on accessibility to Knowledge and Arts for deaf people. It has been doing this work for six years ; 10 people are employed by the organization.

Our work is based on a simple idea : everyone deserves to be able to educate, whatever communication means they use. Everyone deserves specific learning tools to develop curiosity and to learn.

2 GOALS

 Support deaf community. Help it to enlighten and strengthen itself, while being respected as a inority. We propose and create specific tools to help the deaf community in achieving these goals.

 Encourage deaf and hearing people to mix, on equal level basis. Fight against illiteracy. Offer deaf people the opportunity to get access knowledge by reading.

3 ACTIVITIES

 Cultural activities : Propose bilingual cultural activities (French / French Sign language) : theater shows, workshops, exhibition. Make cultural and art places accessible to deaf people : museum, theaters, libraries. We work in France and abroad

 Publishing : Create multimedia tools (books, DVD, the Internet) using mime, sign language, video and pictures. Learn, discover and dream. For everyone : deaf or hearing people. Conte sur tes doigts publishing

 Web : Use the Internet (social networks, web 2.0, video...) for deaf people’ access to Knowledge. Use the Internet to learn, meet people, get information...

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