| Slovak Republic Slovak association of the deaf Established: 7.10.2006 (from 1991 under name Slovak union of hearing impaired) Address: Korytnícka 10/a, Bratislava 82107 Contact details: urad.aneps@gmail.com Website link: www.aneps.wbl.sk
Mission statement of the organisation a) create specific conditions for the development and satisfaction of the needs and interests of the members and inform them of the association's activities. b) persistently defend the rights and specific interests of the members and actively pursue their solution. c) inform the public of the issues of the deaf for these to be viewed as integral part of the society. d) perform social prevention, provide counsel and information to the citizens with impaired hearing using sign language, precise articulation and available information means. e) secure education of interpreters of the sign language, articulation interpreters, employees of ANEPS, social workers and volunteers. f) secure publicity of ANEPS activities in its own magazine as well as other media and to acquire advertising partners.
Details of the Board President: Mária Benková Board Members: Vladimír Pončák, Peter Kolarčík, Dušan Puliš, Gabriela Gabková, Rastislav Hrdlík, Anna Bartalová, Pavol Aitner
Details of the Staff Executive Director: Ľubica Šarinová Other staff: Interpreters
Statistics General Population of your country? 5.000.000 Official or approximate figures of the number of Deaf people living in your country? Approximately 40.000 hearing impaired. Official or approximate numbers of Deaf people who use sign language as their primary language? Approximately 10-20000 How many people are members of the NAD? 1200 Does your National Association of the Deaf publish any magazine or newsletters for your members? Yes, Infonep. Does your National Association of the Deaf have Youth section? No
Status of Sign Language Is Sign Language legally recognised as part of your Government's constitution? No, Sign Language is not recognised as a part of government constitution, but we have law about signing communication from 1995.
Status of Sign Language Interpreters Approximate number of qualified sign language interpreters: Approximately 25-35. Interpreters have own organisation named ATLPRENES (association of sign language interpreters)
Technology Does your country provide Video Interpreting Service? News in television is interpreting.
Deaf centre/clubs How many deaf centres/clubs? 25 are clubs of Aneps and approximately 10 independent. (youth, Christian, sport) Details of the deaf centre/clubs: Usually is meeting day Saturday.
Universities/Sign Language Units Are there any Universities that deals with Sign Language? (Deaf Studies, Linguistics, Interpreting) No, only in Comenius university, is department of deaf education. (preparing teacher for deaf)
Deaf Schools Number of Deaf Schools: 5 elementary schools and 3 high schools. Education method (Sign Language, Oral or other methods): Using all available methods like sign language, oral methods, total communication it depend on school.
History of the NAD Aneps is founding by government (founding interpreting servis) and private donors. Biggest private donor is telecommunication company.
Future events We are waiting for new projects. than we will inform about all new events. |
