{"id":156485,"date":"2021-09-27T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=156485"},"modified":"2021-09-28T00:26:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T00:26:41","slug":"workshop-on-sign-language-to-understand-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=156485","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on sign language to understand others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Marissa Nazeera<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 27 September 2021: Every last Sunday of September is specially chosen as the International Day of the Deaf, and aligned with the theme \u0153Celebrating Thriving Deaf Communities\u009d, The Good Society has organised a sign language workshop, open to all members of the IIUM community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main objective of the workshop was to create awareness of the deaf people among the campus community, and Aisah Salmi, a sign language tutor at Ibn Ummi Al-Maktum in IIUM Kuantan, was the invited speaker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants were taught in the workshop ways to handle various sign languages that include alphabets, numbers, and family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first time The Good Society has organised the workshop which had drawn full attendance from the campus community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was held last Sunday (26 September) at 8.30 p.m through Zoom and was moderated by Aiman Faiz who is also The Good Society advocate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210927_000609_150.jpg?fit=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"156486\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210927_000609_150.jpg?fit=720%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?attachment_id=156486\" class=\"wp-image-156486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210927_000609_150.jpg 720w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210927_000609_150-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210927_000609_150-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Conducted in Bahasa Melayu, the workshop had benefitted the students not only in terms of acquiring knowledge of sign language but also learning to understand each other better.  ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marissa Nazeera GOMBAK, 27 September 2021: Every last Sunday of September is specially chosen as the International Day of the Deaf, and aligned with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2731,"featured_media":156487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,24],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[134,12,2731],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210927_000610_441.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156485"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156562,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156485\/revisions\/156562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}