Traduction de «Entraînement de la lecture labiale » (Français → Anglais) :

3. considers that EUR 12 million spread across activities of 15 Member States is insufficient, in particular given that the participation of people with disabilities in an activity has important additional costs to ensure their equal access (personal assistants, sign language interpretation, easy-to-read information, disability accessible meeting rooms and more expensive hotel rooms, etc.);

Nevertheless, the OECD report on reading and writing, published in June 2000, clearly shows this not to be the case, in other words, that illiteracy is a reality in our countries, entailing high economic and social costs.

Nonetheless, we recognise that the process of debate has brought improvements, that our amendments at the first reading have introduced certain safeguards into these measures.

These are our reasons for supporting Mrs Ghilardotti’s proposals, which once again take up the positions adopted at first reading, with particular emphasis on the amendments that seek to step up sanctions and specific legal proceedings in cases where the directive is breached, on suspending decisions at the request of workers’ representatives when their implementation has serious consequences for workers, with a view to eliminating or minimising these harmful consequences, on eliminating the transitional periods for the directive’s implementation in Member States that do not have a system of worker consultation and on reducing the period of transposition into national law to two years as well as its implementation in the public ...[+++]sector.

2. Subheading 8471 70 51 shall also apply to CD-ROM drives, being storage units for automatic data processing machines, which consist of drive units designed for retrieving the signals from CD-ROMs, audio CDs and photo CDs and equipped with a jack for earphones, a volume-control button or a start/stop button.

She now teaches speech reading in low cost housing projects, works with immigrants and children at the Saskatoon Open Door Society.