The Ponce de León center incorporates Toshiba's collaborative digital signage

In this educational center, a digital signage solution has been used. Toshiba Tec to achieve the integration of its students with hearing disabilities. This includes six professional Ultra HD 4K displays in 43 y 65 inches and a cloud platform from where teaching staff create and share content.

He Ponce de Leon center of the Montemadrid Foundation has become the first Spanish school to promote the integration of its more than 80 students with hearing disabilities, by solving Toshiba Tec collaborative digital signage in Spain.

Reference in the integration of the deaf community, through a bilingual education model in Spanish oral language and signs for deaf and hearing students, With this technology, inclusive communication is also guaranteed outside the classroom., and take another step to strengthen your educational project, recognized for its innovation inside and outside the country.

The Ponce de León center has opted for Toshiba's solution to allow it to adapt its bilingual pedagogical model - each classroom has a tutor in oral language and another in sign language- to the rest of the spaces shared by the educational community, including the families of his more than 400 students, of which the 22% They are deaf and 44% has special educational needs.

Specifically, The Japanese company offers an interactive and collaborative platform for share content in both languages ​​on digital signage screens and similar to a social network. According to the pedagogical direction of the center, the simplicity and autonomy of use of this technology by more than 120 members of its teaching staff help promote the commitment and participation of deaf students in the educational environment, as well as promoting the use of sign language and familiarizing the entire school community with this mode of communication..

The solution is made up of six professional Ultra HD 4K displays in 43” and 65” formats installed in the common spaces of the center, concretely, in secretary, concierge, the two dining rooms and the access areas of Primary and Secondary Education.

Through a cloud platform, teaching staff create and share, without the need for prior knowledge or supervision, information about school events, extracurricular activities, educational programs and menus or nutritional advice, as well as educational videos, the result of experiments carried out in the laboratory and mathematical problems or challenges.

“We are impressed with the positive impact that digital communication has in our educational center. Students feel more involved and motivated, and communication with parents has improved significantly. Definitely, “It has been a right decision to enrich our educational experience”, explains Manuel Bienvenido Velasco, management director of the Ponce de León center.

Founded in 1973 as a school for the training of deaf boys and girls, The Ponce de León center of the Montemadrid Foundation turned the traditional inclusion model on its head by incorporating hearing students with deaf students in 1994. At the moment, It has a classroom ratio of five deaf students for every 20 listeners and registers a school success of 93% on the total of its students.