DEAAF, Deaf Education & Arts for African Families, is a not-for-profit organisation committed to providing much needed schooling to deaf children within the African continent. Our goal is to provide education, assist in poverty and hunger alleviation, and encourage the local community and government to become actively involved to ensure deaf children have an educational future that is often taken for granted in more well developed countries.
DEAAF and DeSanto Centre for the Deaf is a non-profit centre that provides a safe environment where deaf students can learn and grow. With a well-rounded holistic approach, students needs are catered to, regardless of educational background. Students at the DeSanto’s Centre for the Deaf are treated with dignity and respect, as they learn to communicate in ways many were not able to on their own. Healthy meals, life skills coaching, organized sports, skill building and cooking are all components to our program in addition to traditional schooling.
Because the development of a child’s brain and language skills starts very early, deaf children can start learning sign language at the age of three months. Early education is a strong component of educating deaf children, which is why we urge parents to enroll their children at a young age in schooling. The earlier we are able to teach deaf children, the better. They can be equal to their hearing counterparts as language acquisition is imperative in the very early years of birth. DEAAF aims to fill the gap of not only early childhood education for deaf students, but preparing them for future schooling and success.
If it were not for Gary and Gail DeSanto we would have never made it this far. Thanking Gary and Gail Desanto for all they have done for us here!!!
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