Last February 18 and 19 of this year at JACAH Resort in Alfonso, Cavite the Philippine Association of Interpreters for Deaf Empowerment was invited to give orientation and the basic of signs to the faculty and staff of Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) National High School of Las Pinas City.
Mr. Jun Celada, PAIDE CEO, gave his welcome remarks and introduced his team members spearheaded by Mr. Michael Potian, the Sign Language Training Officer of PAIDE; Ms. Sonia Lodado; Ms. Emelie Gentalian and Ms. Nemia Abiday.
PAIDE as sign language training institution in the Philippines was introduced to the participants by Mr. Potian. Orientation and overview of the 2 day sign language program and Deaf awareness followed. Ms. Gentalian taught the participants the manual alphabet; members of the family and song interpretation of “Lupang Hinirang”.
Ms. Lodado discussed the causes and prevention of deafness and strategies in teaching the deaf. Ms. Abiday presented numbers, colors and shapes with matching music/videos; another song interpretation, “My Valentine” and prepared “ice breakers” for the morning and afternoon sessions.
Sir Jun; Ms. Sonia and Ms. Emelie took turns to interpret for the deaf evaluators: Cristy Rivero; Ivy Pearly Buray; Muffy Gaya and Benjie Calatrava.
For day 2, participants had the recap of the 1st day’s lesson/activity and were later given evaluation of sign language thru written exercises.
It was a very successful event attended by 16 participants together with their school principal, Mr. Ricardo B. Delos Santos and Mrs. Amelia S. Lacsamana, the school division supervisor.
Thumbs up PAIDE Trainers and Evaluators! We’re going places…