‘Listen to me!’, from Canal Extremadura, awarded by the Academy

El Consejo de la Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes de Televisión otorga un reconocimiento especial a este espacio pionero en Europa creado por personas con discapacidad llevando a cabo una importante labor divulgativa de la realidad social de este colectivo. El galardón se entregará en Madrid el próximo 9 de junio durante la ceremonia de los duodécimos Premios Anuales.

El Consejo de la Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes de Televisión decidió en su última reunión otorgar un reconocimiento especial al programa Listen to me! broadcast by Canal Extremadura. This pioneering space in Europe, created by and for people with disabilities, carries out important work to disseminate the social reality of this group.

The recognition will be presented, on June 9, in the Green Room of the Teatros del Canal in Madrid during the ceremony of the twelfth Annual Television Academy Awards.

The Council is made up of Spanish Television, Antena 3 TV, Cuatro, laSexta, the regional networks of FORTA, Canal Extremadura, Castilla y León Television, Digital +, ONO and Veo7. In addition, a representation of the Board of Directors and the previous Presidents of the Institution are part of the Academy's advisory body.

Listen to me!

Listen to me! It is a program with fully accessible content, simultaneous translation in sign language and on signs for deaf people. Most of the people who do it have a disability and it focuses on topics of interest such as accessibility, the JEDES (Extremadura Special Sports Games) and the Dependency Law, among many others.

During the show's two seasons, Listen to me! He has entered the Badajoz Penitentiary Center to find out what life is like there for inmates with intellectual disabilities, he has considered how these people experience sexuality and he has traveled to Kenya to visit a community called Bombolulu, where people with different disabilities have found a place to work and thus support their families.

The presenter of the program is María del Carmen Arroyo, a young woman with a degree in Occupational Therapy from the University of Extremadura who studied the International Baccalaureate in the United States with an ONCE scholarship.

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