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Braam Jordaan : ウィキペディア英語版 | Braam Jordaan
Braam Jordaan is a South African filmmaker, animator, and activist. He is an advocate for Sign Language and human rights of Deaf people, and board member of the World Federation of the Deaf Youth Section. In 2009, Jordaan collaborated with the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf and Marblemedia on the first children’s animated dictionary of American Sign Language, which allows deaf children to look up words in their own primary language of ASL along with the English counterpart.〔 The dictionary allows both deaf children and their hearing parents to learn sign language together. Jordaan was interviewed by international news organizations including ''The Washington Times'', ''BBC'', and ''People'' magazine about the sign language interpreter scandal during the funeral services of President Nelson Mandela.〔 In 2014, Jordaan collaborated with the Camp Mark Seven's first summer of Deaf Film Camp in the making the hit song ''Happy'' by Pharrell Williams into an American Sign Language music video.〔 The music video made by all 24 camp students was selected as one of NBC News ''25 Most Inspirational Stories of the Year'' and listed as one of ''People'' magazine's ''2014 Internet Trends''.〔〔 ==Early life and education== Jordaan was born in Benoni, Johannesburg, South Africa during the era of apartheid to a predominantly deaf family that later moved to Cape Town, South Africa.〔 He attended high school at (De La Bat School for the Deaf ) in Worcester.〔 During high school, Jordaan participated in the Law Commission Workshop at The Bastion in Newlands, Cape Town. At the age of 16, he attended the first-ever Deaf Youth Leadership Camp in Durban, led by Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen, which led to Jordaan being elected to attend the National Youth Policy Commission in Midrand in 1998. In 1998, he became a Member of the Council of Learners, and the Chairperson of the council in 2000.〔
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