With deep regret WFD has learnt that the 17th Winter Deaflympics scheduled to begin 17th February 2011 has been officially declared cancelled on Friday 11 … Read More
WFD President’s visit to Panama
20th January – A visit to Institutio Panameno de Habilitacion Especial, (Special Habilitation Institute in Panama) with the President of ANSPA. They presented their work … Read More
Australia’s Deaf community congratulates and thanks the Queensland Government and the ACMA for Auslan-interpreted flood updates
Deaf Australia, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) and the Australian Federation of Deaf Societies (AFDS) today congratulated the outstanding efforts of the Queensland … Read More
21st International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED) in July 2010 in Vancouver, Canada
Educators and researchers in Deaf education have met regularly since their inaugural conference held in Paris in 1878 to discuss various issues in Deaf education. … Read More
International Congress of the Deaf (ICED) July 18-22, 2010 Vancouver, Canada
The 2010 ICED Organizing Committee opened the 21st International Congress on the Education of the Deaf in Vancouver, Canada with a long-awaited sweeping repudiation of … Read More
Vancouver 2010: A New Era of Participation and Collaboration : Moving forward from the effects of the 1880 Milan Resolution
1880 Milan decision by educators, for Deaf People, is a dark historical event. 164 delegates of the International Congress on the Education of Deaf-Mutes gathered … Read More
1958
International Day of the Deaf is first celebrated. Later the Day extends to an International Week of the Deaf. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) grants WFD consultative status.
1951
First World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf is held in Rome, Italy.