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Category:
Society & Human Interest

Keywords:
Medicine, Health, Deaf and Hard-of-hearing

Producer(s): POINT DU JOUR

Coproducer(s)/co-financing:
FRANCE 5 - France Télévisions

Length: 1x26

Format: One-off

Original version: French

Nationality: France

Year: 2015

Rights: world

Support(s): HD file

Collection: OEIL ET LA MAIN - Season 2015-2016 and earlier

DEAF AND HOSPITAL CARE, A 20 YEAR HISTORY (The)

Director(s): Agnès POIRIER – Writer(s): Agnès POIRIER Contact Print page

In January 1995, the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris opened its first sign language service. 20 years on, we look how this “French model”, unique in the world, has evolved over time.

Today, in more than fifteen hospitals, there is a special sign language care structure to welcome the deaf. But what are the current issues facing this special care unit?
Is the philosophy of the beginnings still at work?

AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING: French s.t. version only.

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