Concerned with the differences and engaged on the social commitment to include this minority, the Fundação de Rotarianos de São Paulo created, in 1977, the Centro de Educação para Surdos Rio Branco, an institution exclusively dedicated to the deaf cause. With a carefully prepared project to insert and socialize deaf children into a predominantly hearing society, the Centro de Educação para Surdos Rio Branco is dedicated to develop such children since their early years of life, working towards providing basic learning to such minority aiming to fully integrate them into the society.
Up to the 5th year of Elementary School, advanced pedagogic and technical resources are used counting with the Brazilian Language of Signs – Libras – as th one of its main axis. After the 6th year, the School Continuity Program, a partnership with the Colégio Rio Branco and associate school, deaf students are included into regular classes with hearing students, enabling social insertion of those children. Still watchful of the deaf minority, the work is completed in the Colégio Rio Branco and in the Centro Profissionalizante Rio Branco.
With a work that reaches beyond the classroom, the Centro de Educação para Surdos Rio Branco works strongly towards building the deaf identity.
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