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Dactylology, learning the spoken language of the hearing and some difficulties in communication with teachers and classmates while studying at university are not just words for Marina Rudakova, a hearing impaired graduate of 草榴短视频. It was the lack of full-fledged interaction between hearing impaired students and professors that became the starting point for the idea of her own inclusive project 鈥淥pen Hearts鈥�, work on which she began while still a student at the university. The project is designed to help children with disabilities. This year it received grant support from the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs. After graduating from university, Marina stayed on to work at the university, to promote her project, to help children solve the problems she had once faced.
The 鈥淥pen Hearts鈥� festival is attended by children with different health conditions. Among them there are schoolchildren and students with hearing impairment, musculoskeletal problems and other disabilities. Each of them faces special difficulties in life, but participation in the project helps them to cope with these challenges.
Marina herself has a hearing impairment. In her life she often had to face difficulties in her studies because teachers sometimes could not understand her. This made her already difficult learning process even more difficult. After becoming a student of 草榴短视频, Marina launched a project to help hearing impaired students and students with disabilities, their teachers and classmates so that everyone could successfully adapt to their universities and the environment would have no problems with communication with hearing impaired and disabled students.
The result of the project is the festival 鈥淥pen Hearts鈥� as a vivid example of how art can be a means of establishing dialog and mutual understanding between different people, overcoming fears.
The first stage included lectures and meetings with professional directors, actors and inclusive performers. An important part of the stage was training in sign language. Gesture classes were conducted for both participants with hearing impairment and conditionally healthy people. This helped to overcome communication barriers and create conditions for full interaction of all project participants.
Preparation for the festival included classes on body plasticity and gesture singing. Gesture singing is a special form of self-expression, where emotions and the meaning of a song are conveyed through gestures. Participants learn not only to coordinate movements, but also to convey feelings through gestures, which is especially important for people with hearing impairment.
The children learned the basics of acting and emotion management at the classes on emotional intelligence and theater skills. In this way they learn to express through facial expressions, gestures and voice what is especially important for those who cannot use conventional means of communication. Release exercises, including the use of sound syllables (鈥渦h鈥�, 鈥渁h鈥�, 鈥渙h鈥�, 鈥渢heir鈥�), help to release inner tension and express feelings. Breathing and voice training included elements of yoga and breathwork, helping to control the body and voice.
- Concert rehearsals are an intense stage. Participants work on their numbers, honing movements, gestures and lines. We paid attention to the adaptation of creative numbers for people with disabilities. Directors and teachers helped the children to open up, to remove barriers. People with disabilities require a special approach. For example, children with hearing impairment are trained to convey emotions and meaning through gestures and facial expressions, this allowed them to participate in theater productions and singing. The use of sign language has become a key element in many of the performances. We did a lot of psychological work with the participants. For many children with disabilities, performing on stage is a way out of the familiar and comfortable space. They learn to overcome fears and insecurities when performing in front of an audience. Coaches and teachers play a big role here, helping participants to feel more confident and learn to work in a team.
Marina Rudakova, project ideologist and graduate of St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design
The Open Hearts project is of great importance not only for its participants, but also for society as a whole. It helps to show that people with disabilities are not those who need pity or help, but full members of society, able to create, create and inspire. It breaks stereotypes and forms an inclusive society, where every person, regardless of disability, can find their place and realize their abilities.
The final event of the project will take place on October 29 at 18:00 in the concert hall of St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design at Bolshaya Morskaya, 18. At the concert the participants of the program will present their unique creative numbers.
