SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN

Jakarta, Indonesia
In 1983 a start was made with a school for deaf children in West Java. Teaching deaf children is a very intensive form of education: the classes many not comprise more than 10 pupils. Besides whole-class teaching, all the pupils also get individual speech training to learn to speak well.
The school begins with toddlers from the age of two onward. They are guided and accustomed to using hearing aids, so that they become aware of sounds from their surroundings.
Hearing classes
ear-training in the gymnasium
The gymnasium is also used for the purpose of training to hear
Speech training
Pupils who have learnt to speak and to lip-read well, pass on to general education.
When they are four years old, they enter the infant department, which period lasts four years. After this they have primary education for eight years, at the end of which they are supposed to take a final examination so that next they can start in the junior section of the regular secondary school.
The total number of pupils at this institute amounts to 250, in the ages from two to 21. This institute has no boarding, but at noon the pupils have lunch at school, for their homes may be miles away from school.
The computer needs hold no secret for deaf children. They too can communicate with other / hearing people
Computer lessons
Future tailors
The tailor makes the man, in Indonesia too
For children who are not able to follow regular secondary education, the school also offers a secondary technical vocational training to be , for instance, a tailor, a cook and confectioner, a hair dresser and a beautician.
The silkscreen printing of logos, badges and banners will enable the pupils to make their own living later on.
Silkscreen printing
Cookery training
Good wine needs no bush
and a good cook needs no advertising

At the Technical School the FIC Brothers collaborate with two sisters, Daughters of Mary and Joseph, who for many years now have had experience in the education of deaf children in Wonosobo, Central Java.
Other Sisters too assist or are in training.
The campus consists of four units, consisting of: eight classrooms for the Infant department, 18 for the Primary school, and next the Technical school. The brothers' house (picture) is the 4th unit.