The UAB awarded for its commitment to helping deaf people enter the labour market

Since 2010, the UAB has hired 32 people with hearing disorders to form part of the library teams at its faculties, and this has been one of the reasons the ACAPPS Federation decided to awarded the university a distinction on 17 November.

20/11/2018

On 17 November, the ACAPPS Federation awarded the UAB a distinction in an event held for the 23rd edition of the Training Workshops of Deaf People in Oral Modalities and in the celebration of 20 years of Work Insertion Services, which since 1998 strives to help deaf people enter the job market.

This is the ninth edition of the ACAPPS Federation Awards, which in the category of entities goes this year to the UAB, and in the individual category to Antoni Salamero, ACAPPS treasurer and grandfather of a deaf boy and girl.

The reason for this award is the commitment demonstrated by the university in favour of helping people with disabilities to enter the labour market, and particularly members of the deaf community, who since 2010 have been 32 the number of deaf people hired to form part of the UAB libraries team.

UAB Executive Administrator Jaume Tintoré accepted the award in an event inaugurated by Minister for Employment, Social Affairs and Families Chakir El Hormani and which included a photo exhibition of different moments of these past 20 years of Work Insertion Services. The event was open to deaf people and their families and friends, as well as to the professional hearing-impaired sector, and included real-time subtitling and audio induction loop, offered by the ACAPPS Federation's Accessible Communication Services.