TV channel for people with hearing loss appears in Lviv

The first Ukrainian Internet TV channel for people with hearing loss was presented in Lviv.

As the Human Rights Information Center reported, the GlusiTV channel will broadcast videos in the sign language on the topics of employment, changes in legislation, cultural and sporting events, as well as study of the sign language.

According to the project authors, the Ukrainian Internet TV channel was created on the basis of the Polish television channel, the National Assembly of the Persons with Disabilities of Ukraine informs.

The videos for people with hearing loss were produced by Iryna Horyn, who has been working as a teacher in the boarding school No. 101 since 1997. According to Iryna, she has the experience of communicating with the deaf people since her birth, as her mother was the deaf person.

“Frankly speaking, it was my first experience on television, so I feel a bit uncomfortable being in front of the camera for the first time. But I hope that it will be easier soon, when the work comes right,” the woman said.

According to her, eight texts have been already translated into the sign language. Moreover, a few informative videos on the breast cancer, the hazards of drugs, and the social protection for people with disabilities have been shot. All the videos will be published on the Facebook page of the channel, because the majority of the deaf people are advanced computer users and have the accounts in social networks.

“The graduates of our school have a lot of friends among the deaf people on the Internet. They told that people from Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv are even a little bit jealous that we have such a TV channel in Lviv and they do not have,” Iryna said.

She noted she was trying to be emotional in shot to convey the subject properly.

“There is a correct, counter-drawn sign language, and there is common sign language, used by the deaf persons in everyday life. So when I convey the information from the text, I alter it to normal, common sign language so that a deaf person could easily perceive and understand what is going on,” Horyn explained.

The project is implemented by the Centre for Education with the support of the RES-GEST (Rzeszow, Poland) and the Green Cross Society (Lviv).