Videoreportaje sobre el uso de la lengua de señas en espacios informativos de medios televisivos ecuatorianos

Abstract

This documentary exposes the reality about the media treatment of the sign language and the deaf community presented on the news segments. The investigation introduce a testimony of two hearing impaired persons, secondly it's presented a sign language interpreters and a FENASEC official perspective. This project shows the effort that hearing impaired people makes to get the access to information, their family and friends have been an important source for them to know about the local and the international news. For the deaf community, a sign interpreter is the connection they have to communicate with listeners; therefore interpreters should correctly prepare themselves to make an appropriate interpretation about the live messages shown on television. The deaf community is not satisfied with the media ussement of the technical methods related to sign language interpretation on the news. At last, it's presented the disrespect from the state to the compliance of the communication and access to information rights.