Description
The project’s aim is to promote integration of people with hearing impairments into community’s routine and to improve their life quality. The project will develop social rehabilitation services with the aim to stimulate compliance with human rights and to lessen effects of impairment in elderly people with hearing impairments. The project plans to create an innovative social service, thus ensuring that elderly people with hearing impairments learn computer skills at various levels of knowledge and skill, providing Internet access and individual consultations on how to use a computer. Learning computer skills and having access to the Internet will improve their welfare, increase the availability of the informative environment and promote their social inclusion in the community. The educational measures of the project will promote the target group’s awareness of their rights and opportunities in various areas of life.
Summary of project results
The aim of the project: to promote the integration in society of 100 seniors with hearing impairment and improve their quality of life by creating an innovative social service - computer skills lessons, provision of accessibility of Internet and individual consultations in computer use. The acquisition of computer skills and the accessibility of Internet for seniors with hearing impairment will promote the increase of their well-being, accessibility of the digital environment and will favor their inclusion in society. The implementation of the educational activities of the project will promote the understanding of seniors about their rights and possibilities in different areas of life. The place of implementation of the project: Riga The results of the project: 1.Creation of the innovative social service program "Computer Skills Lessons for Seniors with Hearing Impairment without Previous Knowledge"; 2.Creation of the innovative social service program "Computer Skills Lessons for Seniors with Hearing Impairment with Previous Knowledge"; 3.Installation of a computer technologies set; 4.Individual consultations for 100 users of the computers; 5.Implementation of the innovative social service program "Computer Skills Lessons for Seniors with Hearing Impairment without Previous Knowledge" for 25 persons; 6.Implementation of the innovative social service program "Computer Skills Lessons for Seniors with Hearing Impairment with Previous Knowledge" for 20 persons. The target group: 100 seniors with hearing impairment.
Summary of bilateral results