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MOSTOVI BROJ 6
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MOSTOVI No 6, march 2002. godine Summary
The
issue of the edition: sense of hearing, deafness, hard of hearing. The
Union of Associations of hearing and speech impaired Citizens of Bosnia
and Herzegovina has finalised the last-year activities with success in
spite of a series of organisational and financial difficulties. Several
projects were implemented such as Inter-cantonal sport contest,
provision of hearing aids and computers for a Centre for Children with a
Hearing Impairment in Tuzla, organisation of a theatre performance,
initiating an issuing of a magazine for deaf and hard of hearing people
on relevant issues, organisation of an exhibition of artists with
defective sense of hearing, engaging into a process of including Sign
language interpreters into TV broadcasting network, animating the public
for problems which people with defected sense of hearing are confronted
with, providing specialised help to Associations etc. In
January, a Women` s Club organised a ball under masks titled “The
wildest night”, held in the above-mentioned Association of Sarajevo
Canton, being comprised of a well-completed programme and lasted until
early morning hours. A
non-governmental Organisation “Zdravo da ste” – a Youth Centre
“Kastel” from Banja Luka has shown a good sense of cooperation on
the ground based on its own example of the above-mentioned. Integration
of children with a defective sense of hearing has been organised a
series of courses, artistic and educational workshops and association
sessions within a Centre for Education and Rehabilitation of Hearing and
Speech from Banja Luka during the last year.
Children from a primary school “Dositej Obradovic” and pupils
from the Centre for Rehabilitation of Hearing and Speech have managed to
gained necessary equipment for the Centre through the selling of their
own hand-made pieces of art. Two
persons of a great talent hide in Bugojno - Mr. Emir Zukic, an artist of
amazing skilfulness who creates beautiful mosques out of matches, and
Mr. Ibrahim Coric who is a multiple winner on numerous festivals with
his interpretations of traditional Bosnian love songs. A
project titled “Correct mistakes for your own benefit” dedicated to
the rehabilitation of hearing and speech of pre-school and school-age
children with the above defective sense has been realised within the
Association of Citizens with Hearing and Speech impairment of Una/Sana
Canton. Mrs. Enisa Curtovic, a retired educational worker, proposed the
project and acted as its implementer. It
is important for parents to know that defective hearing and utterance
are not obstacles for becoming a literate person. Being illiterate is a
handicap. When
you have a great love and support given by your closest ones and an
unselfish help from other people, with believing in God and His
predestination, everything in life is easier – is
a story of a young girl from Travnik, Ms. Amila Selava, who is managed
to gain her University Degree Diploma by her own intelligence and
persistence. Take
paints and an artist’s brush, try to make a painting, perhaps there is
a sleeping painter inside you, only you did not know that…
Upon giving a birth, everyone has been gifted by a talent. Take a look
at a child` s eyes, those crystals that are looking into a huge world.
Only that needs to be done is to approach and grasp for a treasury of
talents. Give a chance to a child. To believe in failure is a mistake.
To give up before even give a try is a defeat. Adults (parents,
professors, relatives) are responsible for children` s future. There are
little grown-ups hidden inside children, and adults open the door toward
the future for them, in order to make them be able to make a bow from
the stage to life and move ahead armoured by knowledge, now being
independent and capable of integrating into that immense river.
Life is a beautiful but a cruel as well, a constant struggle. The
construction of a Centre for Children and Youth with Special Needs has
been recently finalised in Mostar, being located in Juzni logor Street
bb, in the South part of the town. The Centre is equipped by modern
devices and well-skilled staff but unfortunately still having an
unsolved issue of financing. The Centre common script is “With a
Special Need through the Centre and without a Special Need Independently
through Life” On
3rd December 2001, Ministry for Social Affairs and Employment
Issues unanimously reached a decision to accept a proposal of the
European Commission to pronounce the year 2003 for the European year of
people with special needs. A
12 million Euro budget has been approved for the European year committed
to financing a wide spectrum of activities and initiatives. A
defective sense of hearing is becoming more and more frequently noticed
amongst children in the world. On a basis of a modern technology, a lot
can be done for those children to make a good start into life, if a
disorder is timely discovered. A
deaf can do anything except hear – an achievement of an American
dream. A deaf Bosnian young girl, Amra Hrnjez, run from a war in Bosnia,
found a shelter in America. She graduated at the Gallaudet University
for Deaf People in Washington. A
sense of hearing, deafness, hard of hearing – we are not aware of the
fact that we have only one sense of hearing and that it is priceless.
Every defect of sense of hearing causes a rustle, partial deafness or a
complete deafness which resulting in defects in correspondence. A modern
hearing-aid should provide a patient with a natural way of listening to
speech, music and other sounds, providing them with a good understanding
of one another, and being comfortable for the use as well. “A
stimulation of movements“,
is a new edition of a book for parents of deaf children. A
Resolution on Sign Languages - a new textual version, was adopted by the
European Parliament in Brussels, on 6th December 2001 on the
occasion of the Celebration Day of Sign Languages of the European Union
of Deaf People. The Resolution should be used as a supporting document
for all Associations of Deaf People in lobbying for achieving changes
aimed at ensuring a better status of the Sign Language in countries. An
International Club B-17 was established in January last year in
Copenhagen as a forum for deaf people of the other ethnical origin in
Denmark. The Club is established on the initiative of four deaf people
and one of them is from Bosnia and Herzegovina. A
new book is published! Dr Fuad Brkic from a Clinical Centre in Tuzla
published a book titled “Hearing-aids”. Some of the issues
elaborated in this publication are as follows: the way how a hearing-aid
functions, new trends within a field of healing and rehabilitating
persons with a defective sense of hearing, a brief historical review of
development of producing hearing-aids etc. Mr.
Amir Kiveric, a student with a defective sense of hearing, from the
University in Tuzla, an interview. I
heard something like tick tack…a
story on positive results of cochlear implantation. An
interview with Mr. Jasmin
Hemze, Editor-in-chief of the magazine “Initiative”. Where others
are left breathless, SENSO DIVA remains calm… Here
are a couple of useful pieces
of advice on how to take care of an individual earmould. Why
do two ears can hear better than one? What have scientists discovered? The truth about AIDS – pass it on. After an infection by the HIV, an immunity system of the human body is being gradually destroyed resulting in a complete crash of natural immunity mechanisms. Consequences are serious infection diseases, rare kinds of cancer, changes and defections of the nervous system. All persons affected by AIDS are sentenced to death due to the fact that there is no medicine which might result in healing. Special
Olympic Games – “When searching for a vision for the future, we see
the next generation of Special Olympic Games heroes – sportsmen,
families and volunteers – coming from all over the Planet, joined by
their wish to show the world that everyone belongs to the Planet
indeed”. Lyrics
– verses written by Ms. Zdenka Kirin from Zagreb.
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