What is SILENT WARRIOR WEEKEND?
SILENT WARRIOR WEEKEND is a New Warrior Adventure Training (NWTA) that is specialized for Deaf, deaf, hard-of-hearing and even hearing men who want to attend this training---signing or not. It has resources to meet the needs of these men that a regular NWTA does not.
SWW is held once a year in Texas, with emphasis for men who are Deaf, deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Interpreters and Teachers of the Deaf, those having deaf family members and hearing men who may know some American Sign Language (ASL). This NWTA weekend is, of course, open to ALL men.
This specialized training embraces the concept of integrating all men in the group, rather than separating either deaf/hard-of-hearing men or hearing men. The emphasis is placed more on communication through ASL. SWW is not a weekend about deaf and hard-of-hearing men. It is a weekend that embraces deaf and hard of hearing men.
SWW is organized by the Deaf/HH NWTA Committee and fully staff by men who are either deaf, interpreters, or fluent in ASL along with non-signing hearing men who have completed their NWTA weekend.
There are 21 men who went through NWTA and the number of Deaf, deaf and hard-of-hearing men is growing as time goes by as the news of SILENT WARRIOR WEEKEND formerly known as the New Warrior Training Adventure for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Men is spreading throughout Deaf communities here in U.S.
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