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Deaf Awareness Week 2012

Pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 829 dated November 8, 1991 entitled "Declaring the Period from November 10-16 of Every Year as the Deaf Awareness Week," the Department of Education (DepEd) through the Special Education Division of the Bureau of Elementary Education (SPED-BEE), in coordination with the Manila Federation, will lead the 2012 National Observance of the Deaf Awareness Week.
The week-long celebration will be observed on November 10-17, 2012. This will be spearheaded by the LINK Center for the Deaf.

With the theme: Deaf and Able, the observance aims to enhance significant public awareness on the prevention, early detection, intervention, rehabilitation and education of the people with hearing impairment together with able peers.

All public, private and special schools with Special Education (SPED) Centers and programs for the deaf are encouraged to undertake the following activities provided that the Engaged Time-on-Task Policy shall be observed as stipulated in DepEd Order No. 9, s. 2005:
  1. Run for FAn (Fully Abled Nation)
  2. Sports Events
  3. Video Making Workshop
  4. Story Telling (caravan)
  5. Hearing Test (BHPI, UST)
  6. Recollection for Deaf Students
  7. Photo Exhibit
  8. Sayaw, Hataw, Galaw!
  9. Fora on Deaf Awareness
  10. Symposium for parents and other stakeholders
  11. Open House Exhibit

For more information, all concerned may visit the SPED-BEE, 2nd Floor, Bonifacio Building, DepEd Complex, Meralco Avenue, Pasig City or contact this Office at telephone no.: (02) 631-9993 or send a message through email address: sped bee.depedcryahoo.com.

Deaf Awareness Week 2012
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

Pre-DAW ActivitiesPhotography Workshop
  • Inter-school basketball tournament (elimination rounds)
November 10 (Saturday)Venue: Quezon City Memorial Circle
Ecumenical Service - 7:00 - 8:00 am
Opening Ceremony - 8:00 - 12:00
Fun Games and Activities:
  • Amazing Race
  • Face Painting
  • Origami Workshop
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Rosary Making
  • Indigenous Music Workshop
  • Hip Hop Dance Workshop
  • Magic Show
  • Try Science Interactive Booth
  • and more...
Amateur Video Making Contest Launch

Inter-school Basketball Tournament (Finals)

Venue: SM North EDSA
Photo Exhibit: Ribbon Cutting Ceremony - 3:00pm
Story Telling - 4:00 - 6:00pm
November 11 (Sunday)Venue: University of the Philippines Academic Oval

Run for FAN (Run for a Fully-Abled Nation) - 5:00 - 8:00am

Simultaneous Signed Masses in the different parishes of the Dioceses of Manila and Quezon City
November 13 (Tuesday)Venue: Tan Yan Kee Building, UST

Video Making Workshop

Story Telling Caravan - (Philippine School for the Deaf)
November 14 (Wednesday)Story Telling Caravan - Miriam College - South East Asian Institute for the Deaf
November 15 (Thursday)Story Telling Caravan - Bagong Silang E/S
November 17 (Saturday)Venue: TBA

Recollection for Deaf Students - 8:00am - 12:00nn

Venue: CAP-Makati

Cultural Show - 5:00pm
Weeklong Activities
November 10-17
Hearing Test - (BHPI, UST)

Venue: TBA

Recollection for Deaf Students - 8:00am - 12:00nn
Post-DAW Activity
November 24, Saturday
Venue: Amoranto Theater

Sayaw, Hataw, Galaw! (Dance, Groove, Move!)
And inclusive dance production featuring the performing art scholars of LINK Center for the Deaf and the Quezon City Performing Arts Development Foundation

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