For a more effective and inclusive performance of their duties, Caloocan City’s public service personnel underwent a two-day sign language training being spearheaded by the Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO).
The training covered Caloocan’s frontliners, persons with disability (PWD) in the barangays, and other groups involved in the delivery of services to the deaf and hard of hearing individuals.
The program also featured sensitivity training aimed at proper communication with people from other disability types, including visual, mental, intellectual, learning, speech, psychosocial, physical, cancer, and rare disease.
Michael Ramos, PDAO officer-in-charge, thanked Mayor Dale Gonzalo Malapitan for “supporting these initiatives that may seem simple and mundane, but have an unquantifiable impact on the relay of services to PWD communities in the city.”
“We are thankful for this opportunity to learn this simple way to communicate with the deaf and those hard of hearing. This also involves the proper way to share, chat, and immerse with persons with disabilities so that the initiatives for caring and helping will come from our frontliners,” Ramos said.
Malapitan likewise underscored the significance of having more accessible services for the PWDs.
He vowed to continue the efforts initiated by the city government to create a safer space for all of his constituents.
“For more effective communication, livelihood, and other benefits, we will do everything we can to promote and protect the rights of the PWDs,” Malapitan said.