Workshops on Oral Language

PROCEEDING 2016 International Conference on Education Social Science UK-ICESS Educational and Social Issues in the Changing Asia ISBN: 978-602-19859-7-7 242 accordance with International Deaf Day 2016 in which they held some events, such as drawing for students, seminar on deaf understanding, and costume contest. This event was followed by a hundred participant across nation. It was the first time to hold this event in Malang and was claimed to be the biggest event ever in Indonesia. The next workshop was about developing web. The instructor was a professional IT teacher. The participants were mostly students and young members. After the workshop, they could develop and post some news about gerkatin in the web. The website is http:gerkatinmalang.net . This workshop is a request from DPC Gerkatin Kota Malang because they hope there are more people understand about them every day. They hope that they will not be alienated from the society anymore. The next workshop was on sharpening the oral language. This workshop was another request from DPC Gerkatin. They thought that they needed to learn on how to understand lips movements and minimize hand motions. They were so enthusiastic learning oral language although not all alphabet letters can be easily described on a piece of paper not being included in the picture dictionary. The second difficulty was the lips movements between letters were not easily distinguished. Thus, it was suggested to slow down the pace in speaking. After learning to read lips movements, the participant were asked to directly try to use oral language with ‗normal‘ people. They were sat in a group of five and discussed a topic given. The ‗normal‘ people who came to the workshop did not understand sign language at all. The participants worked hard to practice oral language. Workshop on developing creativity was done after the major needs were accomplished. The workshop on how to make healthy chicken nuggets was chosen because most of the members of DPC were workers. Frozen food will be easier to be sold because their friends were also workers. The participants were trained to make, pack, and sell the products. The last workshop was on managing Koperasi Simpan Pinjam. This workshop was done based on the request of the member of DPC Gerkatin. It was used to help organize and improve their financial matters. Suggestions It was suggested to have other workshops on financial activities, education, and job training. Although they have been legally registered on Social Affair Department, they got minimal training and guidance because most all members of DPC Gerkatin were workers who worked from Monday through Saturday. REFERENCE Suparno. 2009. Young Difable and The Optimalization of Accessibility of Space, Online http:publikasiilmiah.ums.ac.idbitstreamhandle12345678917073_Suparno- Difabel.pdf?sequence=1 , accessed on 15 January 2015.