Information from Västra Götalands Dövas Länsförbund (VGDL)
- Västra Götalands Dövas Länsförbund is a batch political and religious unrestricted association with information to safeguard deaf social, economic, the linguistic and cultural interests.
- Click here if you want to know who serves on the Board of Västra Götalands Dövas Länsförbund (VGDL).
- Sign language is of central importance in all our activity, for our community, self-esteem and cultural identity. The need of char languages in the life's all stages go as a guiding force and red thread through our activity.
- To last sign language´s deaf is not a disability in common sense. In a sign language environment exists no disability, in the contact with consulting on the other hand arises communication a disability. The does not act only about direct contact with consulting as does not imbue char languages, without equal a lot of about interpreter deficiency, about otextade TV programmes and Swedish films, about difficult understandable information about society on the Swedish language.
- The language is a fundamental right for each individual. Through the language, we get a communication with other persons, can to exchange thoughts and to develop an awareness.
- Communication on char languages is a necessity for deaf but also a pier between deaf and consulting and a condition for deaf active participations in a social life in the society. The contact with non sign language persons take place mainliest through sign language interpreter.
- The big obstacle for ourselves is ignorance about our special culture, problems and needs in combination. To that, limiting society an economy comes, as sheep to followed that we sheep to fight extremelily hard in order to mine to come in the vicinity of that amount culture and the social, linguistic, technical and public level that is a matter of course for consulting.
