“How We Made a Difference!” Titled Event

Our event entitled “How We Made a Difference!” was held as a part of the Life Without Disabilities Awareness Program by the Faculty of Letters. It was held   and  featured the hearing-impaired president of the Turkish National Federation of the Deaf Bülent Tekin, visually-impaired Assist. Dr. Elif Emir Öksüz from Department of Psychology in Yıldırım Beyazıt University, - also a 2008 graduate of Hacettepe University, Department of Psychology, and Gamze Kılıç a physically-impaired German language teacher from Sincan Fatih Anatolian High School who is also a former graduate of Hacettepe University, Department German Language and Literature in 2015.

As a reflection of the awareness policies of our Faculty towards people with disabilities, necessary measures such as the translations of Şahin Karabulut, Turkish Sign Language translator of Turkish Sign Language for our hearing impaired guest, and a vocal description service for our visually-impaired guest were taken, and the required spatial pre-arrangements -such  wheelchair ramps- were made to ensure accessibility of our physically impaired guest.

Through sharing their road to success and stories of how they overcame the disabling difficulties in their lives, our guests have created great awareness amongst our participant audience members who has shown significant interest in this talk.