The young people with hearing impairments have a special potential, but most of the times they do not have chances to realize it. As the lecture rooms at universities are not adjusted to the special needs of such young people, they have to choose a job that they not always like or that does not suit them. Afterward, when they find work, they encounter difficulties. Because of the shortage of sign language interpreters, they cannot communicate with their employers.

In a news conference at IPN, the head of the Association of Deaf Children of Moldova Veronica Capatici said that she convinced herself in practice that these young people have a special potential, but cannot choose other professions than hairdresser, cook, shoemaker or wood sculptor. When they graduate from the vocational school, they find employment at factories, but cannot communicant with other colleagues, except for persons who have the same health problems and learned the sign language.

Veronica Capatici also said that there are only nine authorized sign language interpreters and 5,000 deaf people in Moldova. The Association made an approach to the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family, asking that more such interpreters should be trained so that they provide assistance to persons with hearing impairments. Today these people cannot count on the services of a specialist when then go to a hearing or even to the hospital.

According to Veronica Capatici, despite these difficulties, there are cases when young people with hearing impairments learn a profession and find work as accountants, teachers or painters. But the number of such cases is relatively low.