International Deaf Education Association
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The International Deaf Education Association (IDEA) is an organization focused on the program of educating the deaf in Bohol
, Philippines
initiated by the United States
Peace Corps
, under the leadership of Dennis Drake. The organization is a non-profit establishment that provides education to the impoverished and neglected deaf and blind
children in the Philippines. The institution is able to hold special education
classes on the islands of Bohol and Leyte
through sponsorship program financially supported by American and Europe
an participants. Established in 1985, IDEA has the mission to give assistance to the deaf community in the Philippines in order for them to achieve self-reliance through the provision of “academic, vocational, physical, spiritual, and economic opportunities”. As a holistic ministry, IDEA aims to develop a society wherein deaf people can benefit from “social and economic equality, exchanging isolation for community, and servitude for self-reliance”.
Bohol
Bohol is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, consisting of Bohol Island and 75 minor surrounding islands. Its capital is Tagbilaran City. With a land area of and a coastline long, Bohol is the tenth largest island of the Philippines...
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
initiated by the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Peace Corps
Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...
, under the leadership of Dennis Drake. The organization is a non-profit establishment that provides education to the impoverished and neglected deaf and blind
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
children in the Philippines. The institution is able to hold special education
Special education
Special education is the education of students with special needs in a way that addresses the students' individual differences and needs. Ideally, this process involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials,...
classes on the islands of Bohol and Leyte
Leyte
Leyte is a province of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Its capital is Tacloban City and occupies the northern three-quarters of the Leyte Island. Leyte is located west of Samar Island, north of Southern Leyte and south of Biliran...
through sponsorship program financially supported by American and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an participants. Established in 1985, IDEA has the mission to give assistance to the deaf community in the Philippines in order for them to achieve self-reliance through the provision of “academic, vocational, physical, spiritual, and economic opportunities”. As a holistic ministry, IDEA aims to develop a society wherein deaf people can benefit from “social and economic equality, exchanging isolation for community, and servitude for self-reliance”.
See also
- Filipino Sign LanguageFilipino Sign LanguageFilipino Sign Language or Philippine Sign Language, is a form of manual and visual communication that utilize hand gestures. FSL is used by deaf individuals, people unable to communicate verbally and people who are FSL interpreters in the Philippines.FSL has a very strong influence from American...
- Philippine Federation of the DeafPhilippine Federation of the DeafThe Philippine Federation of the Deaf, Inc. is a non-stock. non-profit national federation of Deaf organization in the Philippines. PFD's existence was legitimized upon its registration with the Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission on June 26, 1997.PFD is a national member of the World...
- Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf
- Ulster Society for Promoting the Education of the Deaf and the BlindUlster Society for Promoting the Education of the Deaf and the BlindThe Ulster Society for Promoting the Education of the Deaf and the Blind was founded around 1836.The schools owned by the Ulster Society have a history dating back to 1836 when the first school for deaf and blind children was built in Belfast...
- Blindness and educationBlindness and educationThe subject of blindness and education has included evolving approaches and public perceptions of how best to address the special needs of blind students...
Others
- International Deaf Education and Advancement Fund, drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
- International Education of the Deaf Graduate Programs, gradschools.com
- Global Deaf Connection, deafconnection.org