| Cyprus Cyprus Deaf Federation Established: 2004 Address: Makedonitissis street 21 Email: cyprusdeaf@cytanet.com.cy Fax: (+375) 22 46 41 97 Phone: (+375) 22 46 41 97 Website link: http://www.cfdeaf.org
Details of the Board President: Yiannis Yiannakidis Board Members: Vice-president: Tasos Anastasiou - Second Vice-president: Giorgos Katsikides - Secretary: Maria Savva - Assistant Secretary: Antonis Antoniou - Cashier: Pantelis Antoniou - Assistant Cashier: Dimos Eleutheriou Statistics General Population of your country? (Including hearing people) 1 million Official or approximate figures of the number of Deaf people living in your country? 1,000 Official or approximate numbers of Deaf people who use sign language as their primary language? 600 How many people are members of the NAD? 50 representative deaf people of the 3 deaf clubs Does your National Association of the Deaf publish any magazine or newsletters for your members? Yes, via fax Does your National Association of the Deaf have a Youth section? No
Status of Sign Language Is Sign Language legally recognised as part of your Government's constitution? Yes, the Cyprus sign language was recognised on 31 March 2006 Is there any campaign to get the sign language legally recognised? There was no campaign. Before SL was recognised, the CDF (Cyprus Deaf Federation) made the suggestion to the Cyprus Parliament.
Status of Sign Language Interpreters Approximate number of qualified sign language interpreters: 9 interpreters Details of training centre/courses: They learned sign language in Greece and in the training centres of Cyprus and were taught by the special teacher of sign language Fani Anastasiou.
Technology Does your country provide Video Interpreting Service? No If not, when will it be implemented? In 2010
Deaf centre/clubs How many deaf centres/clubs? 3 deaf clubs Details of the deaf centre/clubs: Pan Cyprian organisation of deaf, Lemesos Deaf club, Larnaca Deaf club
Universities/sign Language Units Are there any universities that deal with Sign Language? (Deaf Studies, Linguistics, Interpreting) No
Deaf Schools Number of Deaf Schools: Only one in Nicosia Education method (Sign Language, Oral or other methods): Sign Language and Oral
History of the NAD Can you write a brief history of the founding of the NAD? The Cyprus Deaf Federation is a secondary association of the Deaf in Cyprus. It was established in 2004 and it has member clubs all over Cyprus. Nicosia is the base of the CDF, which is also our capital.
Last updated: 25 January 2010 |
