Deaf Federation of South Africa

General Information

Deaf Shop website

Deaf Shop is a web based company that offers a wide range of hearing assistive devices to benefit anyone with a hearing loss. They carry a comprehensive selection of popular, well- designed items to assist users in conversation, on the telephone, watching television, and other daily activities.

The showroom is also availabe to view and try the Deaf Shop products. The show room is locatedin Berea, Durban - South Africa.

Please feel free to contact us
5PM - 9PM (Mon -Fri)
10AM - 9PM (Weekend)

Tel: 031 2086828 (After hours Or Weekend)
Cell: 082 636 9979
Cell: 083 786 2886 (sms only)
Skype: babyboss786 (South Africa)

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Downloads

DeafSA Constitution (360kb)

As amended on the 17th of October 2008
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Convention Easy Read (1.9mb)

An easy read version of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. ______________________________________

The World Deaf Information Resource Project (970kb)

The World Deaf Information Resource project is initiated by the Center for International Programs and Services (CIPS) at Gallaudet University.
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Disability Alliance (217kb)

The contact details of all nodes under Disability Alliance.
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Capacity Building Workshop Report (1.18mb)

The training took place from the 6th till the 9th of November 2008 at Garden Court Hotel Isando in Johannesburg. The 45 trainees all arrived on the 6 November 2008 from the various provinces.

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Deaf Youth Development Report (2.52mb)

The Deaf Youth Development was held in the foothills of the beautiful Waterberg Mountains.

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Deaf Women Training Report (5.84mb)

Advanced Deaf Women Leadership 2009 Camp.

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SADA Profile (1.2mb)

Relevant information on the 13 organisations of SADA including DeafSA.

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Early Identification, Intervention and Support Services to Deaf Children and their Families (358kb)

Why is early identification of Deaf children and intervention important?

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Deaf Youth Leadership Training Report (3.4mb)

Development of Leadership skills amongst the Deaf Youth in South Africa.

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SASLI Policy (325kb)

Draft Policy on the Provision and Regulation of
South African Sign Language Interpreters

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National Youth Camp 2009 Report (3.49mb)

Training was focused on the Deaf Community, with emphasis on Deaf Youth, the selection was based on the demographics of South Africa and emphasis will be on the rural communities and the representatives from the Deaf Provincial Councils were invited.

Definitions of "Deaf"

In this Constitution the word “Deaf” refers to all persons with a substantial hearing loss who may consider themselves Deaf. In particular it refers to those persons who use South African Sign Language as a means of communication, including hard of hearing, deaf blind and deafened persons who align and identify themselves with Deaf culture and with South African Sign Language.

The word Deaf is spelt with a capital “D” to denote adherence to a particular cultural grouping, namely. Deaf culture.

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