{"id":7437,"date":"2024-10-02T16:08:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disabilityconnect.co.za\/?p=7437"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:08:57","slug":"fewer-than-15-accredited-sign-language-interpreters-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/02\/fewer-than-15-accredited-sign-language-interpreters-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer than 15 accredited sign language interpreters in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From an initial mandate of placing people living with disabilities in workplace positions, eDeaf has evolved a training and skills development component to compliment placement and has placed over 4000 people in 17 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With over 44 schools for the deaf in South Africa, only 10 offer a matric so the focus is on learnerships to bridge the gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through Deafinition, sign language services are provided to the deaf, as well as sensitivity training for people in the workplace to understand the needs of their colleagues living with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disability Connect spoke to eDeaf CEO, Nazereen Captieux-Bhana at the Disability Summit and Career Expo 2024, who told us that very few accredited sign language interpreters serve roughly four million hearing impaired people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Disability Summit &amp; Career Expo 2024 - Nazereen Captieux Bhana, CEO eDEAF\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DWrNMUJGy7c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an initial mandate of placing people living with disabilities in workplace positions, eDeaf has evolved a training and skills development component to compliment placement and has placed over 4000 people in 17 years. With over 44 schools for the deaf in South Africa, only 10 offer a matric so the focus is on learnerships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,152],"tags":[434,39,41,143],"class_list":["post-7437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-showcase","category-in-the-workplace","tag-deafinition","tag-disability","tag-disability-connect","tag-edeaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.disabilityconnectexpo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}