Starting next school year, Austria introduces sign language as a curriculum in schools. As an alternative to the conventional second foreign language classes, usually Greek or Latin, high school students can now choose to learn sign language. Get all the details on today's "What's Right with the World".
What's right: Feel the energy of sports
Since April, football fans with hearing loss in Newcastle get to experience the atmosphere at St James' Park in a more intense way. The Premier League club Newcastle United offers special shirts for fans who are deaf or have hearing loss. Get all the details on today's "What's right with the world".
Inclusion at the workplace: Pierre Bohnert about his autism at work
Pierre Bohnert is 44 years old, 1,5 years ago, he was diagnosed with autism, the Asperger's syndrome to be precise. On Local Matters, Pierre tells us how this diagnosis has changed his work life and how he coped before the diagnosis.
Inclusion at the workplace: What needs to improve according to the OGBL
"People with disabilities have the recurrent need for job counseling, not only for a limited period, but time and time again during their whole career." Such an offer however doesn't exist yet in Luxembourg, Joel Delvaux, responsible for workers with disabilities at OGBL, says.
in our interview, Joel talks about the needs that workers with disabilities have, and about what has to be done to improve their chances on the work market.
Work with disabilities: Integration minister Corinne Cahen in our interview
What needs to be done to increase the chances of getting a long term employment for people with disabilities? To address these challenges on a case-to-case basis, the ministry for family affairs and integration hired a dozen people as inclusion assistants. In our interview on Local Matters, we talk to minister Corinne Cahen about this new approach.