The Free State provincial government should start appointing more deaf people to its departments. These are the sentiments of Alcina Mofokeng, a partially deaf social auxiliary worker for Deaf SA.
Alcina Mofokeng is hard of hearing. She’s partially deaf and can also lip-read.
She depended on lip-reading for communication before she was introduced to sign language at the age of 12. Alcina Mofokeng, a deaf SA Social Auxiliary worker who is signing, says, “The challenge that we ever came across before is communication because the social workers in Social Development are hearing, and so you find it so difficult for them to communicate with them. So, that’s the challenge that we’ve faced so far with the department. There are more hearing people, and it’s difficult to communicate with them, to assist them, or to explain our situation to them for them to be able to assist us.
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