News from the Deaf Community in Spain
DifuSord: a bulletin in Spanish for people with hearing impairments

The Association for the Dissemination within the Deaf Community (ADCS) publishes an electronic news bulletin on its web page: http/www.teleline.terra.es/personal/difusord

Samples of recent reports form the news bulletins: an exclusive interview with Vinton G. Cerf, a hearing impaired American creator (along with Robert Kahn) of the TCP/IP protocol to the Internet, and founder of the Internet Society. Cerf recently visited Tarragona, Spain to inaugurate the first street in the world with the name of the great network, and to receive the title Doctor Honoris Causa by the University Rovira i Virgili. Two days after the meeting, the editors of DifuSord received unexpected news: an e-mail informed them that the father of the internet had made a financial donation to ADCS in order to support projects to eliminate communication barriers for people with hearing impairments.

Campaign against AIDS
An important new campaign against AIDS is comprised of sending posters, informational bulletins and condoms to all the associations for people with hearing impairments in Spain. To obtain more information: http://www.cje.org/infosida.htm

"Visual Planet" is born
Two companies, Ki Comunic and Infografic, have created The Visual Planet, the first hispanic portal on the Internet that works to integrate hearing, hearing impaired and hearing impaired and deaf-blind people in to the new technology and media in the society of the XXI Century. In addition to it's services, the novelty of this project lies in the presentation of information using visual and graphic methods, through images, icons, and adapted text for the collective hearing impaired and hearing impaired and blind community- facilitating its access to all its content. This portal becomes available starting June 15th at: http://www.planetavisual.com

Violence and Abuse Guide for Hearing Impaired Women
The Women's Commission of the National Confederation for People with Hearing Impairments in Spain has published a guide for hearing impaired women who may have been involved in some type of violence and/or abuse. This project is part of a campaign to reach the community of people with hearing impairments, and community, and other organisms involved in society's response to domestic violence. At the same time, there is also a plan of action concerning domestic violence which tries to provide answers to the needs of hearing impaired women. This initiative is a pilot project in the independent communities of Andalucia, Asturias, Cantabria, and Madrid. To obtain a copy: CNSE (C.Mujer), Alcal. 160, 1S-F, 28028 Madrid, Email: cnse@cnse.es

For Contacts:
Asociación de Difusión de la Comunidad Sorda (ADCS)
Antonio Martínez Álvarez
Editor, DifuSord
Marqués de Sentmenat 37, local 8
08014 Barcelona, España
Fax +34 93 405 23 58
difusord@teleline.es
http://www.teleline.terra.es/personal/difusord