Research Award of the 2010 FIAP

The Director General of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), Felix Palomero, has FIAPAS 2010 Award of Hearing Research (Area of ​​Accessibility).

The Spanish Confederation of Families of the Deaf (FIAP) has awarded a comparative study that highlights how magnetic induction loops improve hearing and speech intelligibility in public places, thereby facilitating the participation of deaf and hearing users implants, in social, cultural, leisure ...

In the event of FIAPAS Award took place at the Teatro Valle-Inclán, center belonging to the National Drama Center in Madrid.

In his speech the president of FIAPAS, Maria Luz Sanz, recalled how, 20 years ago, FIAPAS held throughout the country, the Campaign to Suppress Communication Barriers. Has noted, moreover, that at present there is a broad policy framework, which enshrines the right of deaf people to enjoy leisure and culture on equal terms. Also noted that great advances that technology provides are made accessible to deaf people the means of oral communication support needed to exercise this right. In particular, magnetic loops that allow deaf users of hearing aids (over 95% of deaf people in our country), significantly improve hearing and speech intelligibility in this scenic backdrop (as well as many other public places) .

Sanz ended by saying that we are on the way to an inclusive culture, which needs a planned strategy and identified by all sectors involved: administration, politicians, associations, world culture …

Have accompanied the Director General of INAEM and M ª Luz Sanz in the Bureau, the Director General of Coordination of sectoral policies on Disability M º of Health, Social Policy and Equality, Jaime Alejandre, the president of CERM, Luis Cayo Pérez and vice 1 of the ONCE Foundation, Alberto Durán.

After reading the minutes of the Jury by the Vice-President, Ricardo Vazquez, vice president of FIAPAS, the author of the winning paper has made a brief presentation of it.

With over 150 attendees including professional education, health care and social services, as well as linked to the universal accessibility, the event concluded with a performance of music played by a number of deaf and hearing students of the Colegio Tres Olivos de Madrid, center Preferential integration of students with hearing impairments.

Before beginning the performance, one of the deaf students have submitted their action by pointing out how their prostheses, the work of their parents, their therapists, their teachers and, above all, his own efforts, can now enjoy extracurricular activities such as music and dance on an equal basis with others.