Deaf Benildean Faculty attend Leadership Training in Hong Kong

Deaf Benildean Faculty attend Leadership Training in Hong Kong
By: Leo Sulse and Ariscel Lobo

Two of SDEAS Senior Deaf Faculty Mr. Ariscel Lobo and Mr. Leonides Sulse, both with a Master of Education Degree from the Philippine Normal University, attended the “Deaf Dialogue: Deaf Leadership Training” held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong last December 27-30, 2009. The training was funded by the Post Secondary Education Network-International (PEN-International), a global partnership of colleges and universities serving the higher education needs of Deaf students.

Mr. Lobo and Mr. Sulse were among the 19 participants from the Asia Region from these participating countries: Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

The Deaf Dialogue was sponsored by The Nippon Foundation and organized by the World Federation of the Deaf Regional Secretariat in Asia/Pacific and the Centre for Sign Linguistic and Deaf Studies.

The second series of the Deaf Dialogue is slated on June or July 2010.

For more info, please visit: www.deaf-dialogue.net