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MDHAC supports WFD's Declaration on Rights of Deaf Children

  • Mar 23, 2024
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Updated: Apr 28, 2024

The MDHAC Board, in 2024, commends the World Federation for the Deaf (WFD) in making a declaration on the rights of Deaf Children worldwide consisting of ten crucial articles, that articulates the fundamental rights of Deaf children globally, including American children.  MDHAC supports the WFD's Declaration as a position statement. We urge everyone to examine the Declaration and collaborate with parents and schools to actualize these rights for all Deaf Children, enabling strong bilingual language skills and cultural identity.   For further details, please visit  https://wfdeaf.org/rightsdeafchildren/




 
 
 

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Runong Wang
5 days ago

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The bit about recognizing each deaf child’s right to full visual language from birth hits home. If early intervention services don’t align with this, how can parents actually advocate for a bilingual approach before a formal diagnosis? That feels like the gap nobody addresses.


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I keep thinking about how the declaration’s language-first approach could shape our local library’s storytime hours. If we added a Deaf adult co-facilitator for ASL sessions, we’d be modeling the child’s right to full visual language from the start, not just accommodating it later.


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