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Shirley Pinto (born March 15, 1989) is Deaf and fluent in Israeli sign language, a social-political activist and one of the founders of the Israeli Center for Deaf Studies. Pinto is involved in public activity, appears in communications and is an intern in a law firm.

Biography

Shirley Pinto was born and raised in the Krayot to deaf parents. Her father is deaf, her mother is deaf and blind and she has a younger brother who hears. Her mother is a theater actress in "Nalaga'at". She was educated at Beit Hinuch Carmel Zevulun in Kibbutz Yagur, in the field of graphic design and social sciences, and received a full matriculation certificate with honors.

Pinto spent most of her childhood in her mother's parents' home, alongside her sign-language parents. In this way she acquired full knowledge of two languages, sign language alongside the Hebrew language, which gave her emotional strength and security between the two worlds. From childhood, she had seen the difficulty and lack of linguistic accessibility among her parents, who coped daily with the authorities and the general public. Pinto's life was also a daily struggle because of a lack of awareness in the public sphere. As she grew older, she decided to devote her life to changing this reality of deaf and hard of hearing people.

In the IDF served in an air force technical as a project manager in the Equipment Group in the field of logistics, performed and conducted follow-up orders acquired very large scale out to Israel, and coordinated front air bases on procurement and supply. Continued to career service, and in 2009 received signal outstanding from the air force commander and a medal president of Shimon Peres. in 2011, after completing her military service, she turned undergraduate studies in law at Netanya academic College and participated in a program of excellence of the college. during her studies she participated, as part of a course in labor law, the delegation of -ILO and to the UN in Geneva. In 2013 was legal assistant to Judge Benjamin Arnon in the District Court in Central[1] for a year, within the framework of law and jurisdiction Clinic practice from the College. In 2014 she specialized in MK karin elharar, handled Legislation, public appeals, and assistance in adapting people with disabilities.

Since 2016 Lecturer in "Translation courts and police investigations," the study of translation into sign language, at Bar-Ilan University.[2]

Pinto lives in Ramat Gan, married to Michael Kadosh, a Deaf guy who has come from the United States, a player in the Israeli Futsal national team[3] and is employed as an engineer in telecommunications in Israel.

Public Activity

In 2014 she joined the Shema Association for deaf and hearing-impaired children and was employed as a counselor and coordinator of informal educational activities. She was later appointed director of the Dan Region Club, and led a fundraising evening to enrich the activities of the children's clubs, which ended successfully. In May 2015, she represented Israel in India on her own initiative, together with her deaf partner, for assistance and legal-educational counseling for children and deaf youth in Indor. Toward the end of her role as director of the club in 2016, she established, together with other founders, the Israel Center for Deaf Studies in order to promote the status of deaf and hearing-impaired people who speak sign language, To recognize the equality of sign language and spoken languages, and to create awareness of the need for the deaf to be accessible and accepted by the general public.

Further founded the campaign "I mark my worth" a change in consciousness of the importance of sign language in public, and to promote legislation of Israeli Sign Language language is recognized in Israel. Under this campaign led to a deaf awareness week in September 2016,[4] titled "I signal I paid." The campaign swept hundreds of thousands of surfers, and was joined by Education Minister Naftali Bennett.[5] Following the campaign, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was the first university in Israel to recognize sign language as an official language for deaf people. In March 2017, a ceremony was held at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in which Pinto gave a certificate of appreciation from the Center for Deafness Studies to the President of the University, Prof. Rivka Carmi, for her knowledge of the Israeli sign language.[6]

In early 2017, Pinto initiated a bill to make public television broadcasts on sign language television, led by MK Issawi Freij and MK Eitan Cabel.[7]

Ruderman Foundation in cooperation with the ('N'), organized and led Pinto together with Ido Granot, meeting the actress's film Marlee Matlin with the community of deaf and hard of hearing in Israel. The meeting was named "Mark of Success" and was held at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. Hundreds of people from all over Israel came to the meeting, and Pinto guided the event. The event focused on breaking the glass ceiling of deaf people, and trying to realize the potential against barriers and obstacles.

Pinto, in the print and broadcast media and in the Knesset committees, raised a series of fundamental failures encountered by deaf and hearing-impaired people in Israel. These failures were expressed in the lack of accessibility and public recognition of sign language in the education system, employment, health and law.[8]

Since 2015 works Pinto strengthening ties between Israel and the countries of the world, to improve the visibility of the population of deaf and hard of hearing and the Advancement of Israel, and chosen to represent Israel at a conference of the World Federation of the Deaf ('N') in November 2017 in Budapest in Hungary.[9] During the conference, Pinto learned about a global initiative to prevent the sterilization of deaf women.[10] Pinto also met Helga Stevens, deaf and member of the European Parliament,[11] and told her about the deaf community in Israel versus deaf communities in Europe. In her speech at the Federation, Pinto spoke about the importance of integrating deaf and hearing-impaired people who speak both sign language and non-sign language as one whole population.[12] Upon her return to Israel, Pinto bChannel 20.[13]

At the beginning of October 2017, Pinto turned to welfare minister Haim Katz and asked him that during the intermediate days of Sukkot and Passover, the telephone relay service would be activated by the Institute for the Advancement of the Deaf.[14] At the beginning of December 2017, Katz replied to Pinto that her request had been received, and that the service would be operated on the basis of a shortened working day.[15]

On December 5, 2017, Pinto told the Knesset Science and Technology Committee that deaf and hard of hearing customers do not hear their names on the screen after ordering self-service meals, and suggested that the business lend them a vibrating sign that will be drawn when their order is ready.[16] On December 12, Pinto announced she was a member of the JDC – Israel Joint Committee, and thanked the Roderman (EN) and JDC for their cooperation with the deaf and hearing-impaired community.[17]

On January 3, 2018, Pinto, a State Control Committee in the Knesset headed by Shelly Yachimovich, said that 45 hours of translation per year is not enough for deaf Holocaust survivors, who need to get to hospitals and doctors more young.[18]

Interviews to promote the integration of the deaf and hard of hearing

Pinto interviewed[19][20] the teaching of deaf students and hearing-impaired individual schools combined and combined classroom, with no individual combined acoustic accessibility,[21] and combined classroom teachers acquire knowledge Israeli sign language consisting of only 36 hours. Pinto also wrote a column about it in "Israel Today".[22]

At the opening of the Awareness Week for the Deaf, on 10 September 2017, she spoke of her work as a single deaf practitioner throughout the country in a law firm, of deaf lawyers who became self-employed due to their lack of integration into law firms, and of the need for accessibility in employment and health services.[23]

Following the exposure of sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein, Pinto said that the deaf woman's difficulty in dealing with sexual harassment is double, both as a woman and as a deaf woman, who is forced to communicate with the professional staff on the subject. Pinto's conclusion was that a sign language control team was needed, preferably for deaf professionals.[24]

Biography

Public Activity

Interviews to promote the integration of the deaf and hard of hearing

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