Hungarian Deafblind Association
Official Address: 1146 Budapest, Ajtósi Dürer sor 39.
Office:1089 Budapest, Korányi Sándor utca 30.
Email: info@siketvakrehab.hu
Website: www.siketvak.hu
Bank Account: K&H Bank Rt., 10409015-90117325
SWIFT: OKHBHUHB
IBAN: HU52 1040 9015 9011 7325 0000 0000
Tax ID number: 18061031 – 1 – 42
The Hungarian Deafblind Association was founded in 1994 with the following purposes:
- to support deafblind children, adults and their families, and provide them with advocacy;
- to support the integration of deafblind people into the society;
- to raise public awareness regarding deafblindness as a distinct disability;
- to contribute to deafblindness-prevention
People living with visual and hearing impairments are considered deafblind, if their dual sensory loss does not allow the use of educational and assistive methods commonly used with visually impaired and hard of hearing/deaf people.
On behalf of the members of the Association:
- we provide informative and legal consultation;
- we keep contact with deafblind persons and their families;
- we provide parents raising deafblind children, other organizations and their professionals with counselling;
- we organize free time activities;
- we organize leisure and rehabilitation club, youth club;
- we edit and distribute our newsletter “Hírmondó”
For the more effective work of our Association we gladly welcome volunteers!
How we communicate with deafblind people?
- with sign language;
- with deaf finger-alphabet written on the palm;
- with capital letters written on the palm;
- with finger Braille (Braille alphabet written on the fingers)
- with “hand to hand” (tactile) sign language;
- with the Lorm alphabet;
- with lip-reading;
- with Tadoma method, that is based on touching the movements of the mouth
The job of a sign language interpreter is to help deaf and hearing people communicate with each other. He translates sign language into speech and spoken language into signs.
Sign language interpreters are available from the Sign Language Interpreting Service.
Our sign language interpreting services are provided under the following legislation:
– Act CXXV of 2009 – On Hungarian Sign Language and the Use of Hungarian Sign Language
– Decree No. 62/2011 on the operation of sign language interpreting services and the conditions for using sign language interpreting services.
– Act LXXXVIII of 2020, which supplemented Act CXXV of 2009, is also important in the work of our interpreting service.
The Sign Language Interpreting Service of the Hungarian Deafblind Association provides interpretation for both hearing impaired and deafblind people.
The free sign language interpreting service provided by the state has a maximum time limit of 120 hours per person per year. People with deafblindness may receive up to 150 free interpreting hours per year. However, this requires official documentation proving that the person is entitled to this service.
Personal Assistance Service
Any member may request personal help in the following activities for free:
- administrative, bureaucratic duties;
- to support independent living;
- during medical care;
- free time activities
Rehabilitation services:
Elementary rehabilitation:
- functional vision assessment;
- pedagogic hearing evaluation, counselling regarding hearing aids;
- hearing training;
- vision training;
- orientation and mobility;
- activities of daily living;
- Braille writing and reading
- alternative communication methods;
- psychological counselling;
- computer access training, assistive technology.
Occupational rehabilitation:
- to retain employment,
- to enter employment.
- job opportunities from internet sources, advertisements, employers and regional vocational centres;
- job-seeking with special assistive technology;
- resume and motivation letter development, according to the communication abilities of the person;
- job-seeking club;
- job-keeping support in order to maintain the efficient co-operation between the employer and employee /ensuring environmental and communication accessibility,
- informing the employer about the nature of the dual
- sensory loss/.
If needed, we provide detailed information about public transport lines and routes or personal assistance to our office.
We gladly accept any donation you may wish to make!
K&H Bank Rt., 10409015-90117325
SWIFT: OKHBHUHB
IBAN: HU52 1040 9015 9011 7325 0000 0000
