EUROPEAN UNION OF THE DEAF (EUD) – Four Deaf Parliamentarians in Europe!

EUD website – text & pictures

http://www.eud.eu/news.php?action=view&news_id=73EUROPEAN UNION OF THE DEAF (EUD) -

AUSTRIA – Helene Jarmer becomes the first Austrian Deaf Member of Parliament

EUD website- text & picture

http://www.eud.eu/news.php?action=view&news_id=74

AUSTRIA – Helene Jarmer Inaugural Speech to Austrian National Council in Austrian Sign Language, Friday 10 July 2009

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8Snua560

AUSTRIA – Helene Jarmer Inaugural Speech to Austrian National Council, Friday 10th July 2009

English Text

http://www.gruene.at/uploads/media/Helene_Jarmer_Inaugural_Speech_1.pdf

BELGIUM – Helga Stevens re-elected as a Member of Flemish Parliament, June 2009

EUD website – text, video but no Sign Language

http://www.eud.eu/news.php?action=view&news_id=72

BELGIUM – Helga Stevens Profile – Member of Flemish Parliament

Flemish Sign Language, Dutch subtitles

http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?hl=en&q=Helga%20Stevens&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#

CANADA – Deaf Politician – The Gary Malkowski Story by Richard Medugno

Preview – full text by subscription (Scribd.com)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15770705/Deaf-Politician-The-Gary-Malkowski-Story-by-Richard-Medugno

CANADA – Gary Malkowski MPP – Parliamentary History

Legislative Assembly of Ontario website- text

http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=404

CANADA – Gary Malkowski MPP – short TV portrait

Sign Language & English subtitles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-39ZcvLaes

HUNGARY – Dr Ádám Kósa MEP – Speeches in Sign Language in European Parliament

European Parliament website – video & text

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sidesSearch/search.do?type=CRE&language=EN&term=7&author=96829