Overcoming of Accessibility Problems of Church Cultural Heritage for Children and Youth with Hearing Disabilities by Specialised Safeguarding, Representation, and Digitalisation

Abstract

Religious and church spaces are one of most specific environments of adaptation of people with hearing disabilities. Presence and needs of deaf and hard of hearing people at any age is quite a challenge for the competencies of priests to assure equal access to church culture for disabled. There is no enough research on the relation of levels of religious necessities of majority and minorities that in regard of human rights awareness have to be equal social priority. Rights of education and confession include systematic provision to children and youth an adequate access to church socialisation and religious instruction, sensitive to the need of people with hearing disabilities as well. Specialised safeguarding, representation, and digitalisation of church cultural heritage is basic for the professional support of religious information and inclusion of subcultures of believers with sensory defined communicational deficits, that could be helpful for their social integration and wellbeing.