The National Assembly (AN) unanimously approved this Tuesday, the first discussion of the Draft Law for Comprehensive Care for Deaf or Hearing Impaired People, and will go to public consultation and then take it to its second discussion in plenary.
This was instructed by the first vice president of the AN, deputy Pedro Infante, during the ordinary session.
“The Draft Law for Comprehensive Care for Deaf or Hearing Impaired Persons is declared approved in First Discussion and is sent to the Permanent Commission for Comprehensive Social Development to prepare its report for the second discussion and to instruct a broad and inclusive public consultation process for this beautiful and fair bill”, urged Infante.
This Bill of Comprehensive Care for the Deaf or Hearing Impaired, was presented by the deputy with hearing impairment, René Coltat Vivas, who from the speaker’s rostrum and in Venezuelan Sign Language (LSV) expressed the importance of the legal instrument .
“This law is very important because it recognizes it as the official language of the country. Just as indigenous languages have been recognized as an official language, I as a deaf person, that this law be given that status, to collect proposals and continue advancing. It is a very positive issue, the recognition of the deaf community in Venezuela, the recognition and attention in different areas, education, technology in the workplace, in job training, ”she emphasized.
He also placed special emphasis on the need to educate the people. He recalled that it is no longer possible to mention a person with a hearing disability as a “mute”, highlighting the need to give him the appropriate mention without disqualifying him but with the inclusive impulse that this government has given to people with disabilities.
The Bill of Comprehensive Care for Deaf or Hearing Impaired Persons consists of 22 articles and a final provision, with the purpose of full recognition of the Venezuelan deaf community as a cultural linguistic group with particular forms of understanding, interpretation and thought, based on a spatial visual gesture language called the Venezuelan Sign Language (LSV).
Likewise, the legal instrument enshrines non-discrimination against deaf or hearing impaired people.
Deputy Coltad, during the presentation of the norm to the plenary, stressed that the purpose of the bill is to ensure these people their participation, inclusion and integration in their families and communities, as well as in cultural, sports, economic, educational spaces , training and employment, community, political, recreational and any other, where they develop, allowing the full and free development of their personality without any discrimination, on equal terms and equal opportunities, highlights the AN press.
