By Silvana Veinberg | Executive Director
Today, www.videolibros.org.ar page has 19 children's books in Argentine Sign Language. Next month we will include 5 short stories that are already close to being finalized and that will be presented on Children’s Day. By the end of this year we expect to have six more stories in this collection.
By 2015 Videobooks will have 30 stories in Argentine Sign Language!
Last year the page received more than 32,000 unique each year from 40 different countries. However, sign languages differ from country to country. That's why other countries have called us to assist them for the creation of Videobooks in their local sign languages.
To make this possible, we started working with volunteer attorneys who are accompanying us in the process of intellectual property registration, and the development of a toolkit to train deaf people from other countries to read the stories in their own sign language. We have begun to work this idea with Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil.
For this idea, we were chosen as finalists for the WISE International Award for educational innovation. To help us spread the project Euronews TV chain filmed us for a whole day in order to perform a three-minute short film that will be translated into 13 languages and broadcasted worldwide.
We need YOUR help!
We want Videobooks to become a reality for deaf children from other countries!
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