The Ministry of Education (MEC) launched the Libras in Cities pilot project. The objective is to expand the training of Libras translators and the qualification of municipal public servants. Thus, they will be able to serve the hearing-impaired population of Brazilian cities.
“Whether within schools, with an inclusion project, or socialization, so that the deaf population can be served in all areas of the public service”, added the secretary Bernardo Goytacazes de Araújo, holder from Semesp.
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“One of the biggest difficulties was to form this civil service. MEC came here today, in partnership with the National Institute for Teaching the Deaf (Ines), to make Sumaré the first city to offer this qualification.”
The pilot project will be expanded to the whole of Brazil in the coming months. “From Sumaré, we're going to launch it all over Brazil. Here we will check the greatest difficulties.”
The first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro, said that this initiative by the MEC in partnership with the National Institute of Education for the Deaf (Ines) is very important. “It is very important because it will expand the deaf community's access to education and also to several fundamental services.”
“I hope that more municipalities adopt this project, and that both teachers and employees embrace this cause and take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to learn Libras and better serve our deaf people”, added Michelle Bolsonaro.
Term
According to Bernardo de Araújo, the government hopes to implement the project throughout the country in the first hundred days of government.
“This is already included in our goal of one hundred days. It is the expansion of the teaching of Libras in Brazil. Practically Semesp already has all the projects contemplated.
It is the MEC present with the idea of less Brasilia, more Brazil. All the projects made by the secretariat were thought exactly within this tonic.”
The launch of the Libras nas Cidades pilot project took place in Sumaré City Hall.
Autism
MEC, in partnership with autistic associations, such as Apae and Pestalozzi, will also launch, in the second semester, the first National Forum on autism, of high abilities, which until then had not been worked.
“We were visiting Pestalozzi, and we are going to launch, at the beginning of the second semester, the first forum national spectrum of autism and high abilities, which was a very closed topic", anticipated Bernardo de Araújo.
“Let's bring the debate to the fore; the number of autistic people in Brazil has been growing more and more. It is an issue that needs to be faced”, concluded Bernardo de Araújo. With information from the Ministry of Education.