Country report: Italy

REPORT FROM ANIMU

2011, 18 OF JULY

Population of Italy  60,000,000     Deafs    60,000   (0.1%)

Italy  sq km   311,000

Total Sign Language Interpreters      Full about  200        Part    ?   

ANIMU  ASSOCIATED    Full   110       Part   30

Training Programme is different  in  the   different  Italian regions


Important ANIMU events last year

 

  • ANIMU and  ANIOS   have represented the interpreters of Sign Language  in  the  Commission  of Evaluation  of The   National  Public Television   (RAI)

Important events  about Sign Language

  • The Audition of  the two Associations,  ANIMU and ANIOS,  at the Italian parliament for the (failed) recognition of Sign Language

Goals of ANIMU Association in the coming year

1 - National Training   for  theachers of Sign Language interpreters
2 - To have  in the public television a regional  daily news  signed by  Interpreters of Sign Language