No âmbito da licenciatura em Língua Gestual Portuguesa, a Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra irá promover uma palestra sobre “Audism vs. Deafhood: Only one way” que contará com a presença de Alda Padeiro Batory.
Este evento, na área dos Estudos Surdos, contará com a presença de Alda Padeiro Batory que irá falar sobre estas concepções aliadas a outras como o deaf gain e o deaf pride. O objetivo principal é o de dar a conhecer estes conceitos da Comunidade Surda e do Deaf World, principalmente aos alunos da Licenciatura em Língua Gestual Portuguesa. 

Alda Batory

LANGUAGES

Sign Languages:

Fluent in: Portuguese Sign Language, Danish Sign Language and International Signs.              

Able to communicate in: American Sign Language

Written Languages:

Portuguese, Danish and English.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

2006 – 2010 Copenhagen University College. Denmark.

BA in Pedagogy.

2001 – 2002. Escola Secundario de Gil Vicente. Lisbon, Portugal

1997 – 2000. Escola Secundario Artistica Arroio. Lisbon, Portugal

WORKING EXPERIENCES & OTHER

2015

Propert & Rent   Founder of a cleaning company with deaf people.   

Empowering Human Rights for Deaf people in Croatia

                               Lecturer

2014

Stories for Children in International Sign

                               Host – for DVD production, Spain.

Deaf Women in Business conference, Washington DC

                               Participant

European Society for Mental Health and Deafness, Belfast – Northern Ireland

                               Participant

2013 

Hablar con

                               Founder of own company with focus on Deaf people and accessibility,       supervisor in human right.

2012

European Society for Mental Health and Deafness (ESMHD). Lisbon, Portugal

                               Coordinator (in a team), lecturer and participant.

European Union of the Deaf (EUD) & Danish Deaf Association (DDL), Copenhagen, Denmark

                               Participant in conference about elderly Deaf in the EU.

Center For Døve (Centre for the Deaf). Seminar, Odense, Denmark.

  Sexuality and Deaf people with additional disabilities.

2011

Social worker      - Centre for the Deaf, Denmark (2007-2011 on-off contract, in total 2 years) 

                               Social worker in a department for Deaf people with additional disabilities.

Project coordinator - Pavilhao do conhecimento - Ciencia Viva, Lissabon Portugal

                               6 months contract to focus on accessibility for deaf children.

2009

Partner and co-founder (2009-2012) Missao Descrobrir

                               Accessibility service for deaf people in Portugal.

2007

Døves Højskole, Castberggård - Denmark

Seminars about Audism and Deafhood.

2003

Lisbon Deaf Association.

From 1999-2003 – first as secretary and at end, as project coordinator

stadig bibeholde overblikket. Ikke desto mindre er jeg vant til at samarbejde med både døve

og hørende.

VOLUNTEER WORK

2015      World Federation of the Deaf, World Congress – Istanbul, Turkey

2012      European Society for Mental Health and Deafness (ESMHD)

                               Host & translator into IS on their website

                Coordinator of Deafhood conference, Leiria – Portugal.

Conference with 250 participants

2010      Board member. Copenhagen Association of the Deaf.

2008 - 2013 Founder of Surdotv.com

Web-tv in Portuguese Sign language, in April 2010 there were over 35.000 visitors on

the website, the site were shut down in 2013 due other priorities.

2003 – 2007. Board Member – World Federation of the Deaf, Youth Section.

WFD and WFDYS is working with UNICEF and World Bank, we developed various camps for Deaf children, juniors and youth.

1999–2003. Member and President, Portuguese deaf youth association.