DEX Skype with Helga Stevens – Deaf MEP

The Skype linkup with Helga Stevens, Deaf Member of the European Parliament, at Brussels went very well last Friday 15th June at Sheffield Hallam University. This initiative was part of the Deaf young people involvement in the ASDAN course on Citienship....

DEX Deaf Youth Council Recycling Centre Visit in Wakefield

by Jill Jones | Activities, DDYC

For this month's workshop the DEX Deaf Youth Council visited a recycling centre in Wakefield - as part of their Citizenship course. It was good to know that our waste is being used again in different ways and that we can help our planet. The centre we...

DEX Supports First Ever Fully Signed Ad Break

by Jill Jones | Deaf News, Video

The UK Council on Deafness (UKCoD) supported Aldi with the making of this advert. DEX is a trustee of UKCoD so we are thrilled with BSL being given so much publicity! Also thanks go to Maisie Sly and her mum...

Humans of Leeds – DEX

by Jill Jones | DDYC

“I was born and lived in Pakistan in my early childhood. When I was three my family found out I was deaf. My dad decided to go to the audiologist for hearing tests and hearing aids. He wanted an implant for me but they were too expensive and we couldn’t...

DEX Board Meeting April 2018

by Jill Jones | Activities

DEX Directors who were at the Board meeting held in Wakefield on 21 April 2018: David Leach, Brian Daltrey, Ian Randell, Georgina Brown (Hon. Treasurer), Khalid Ashraf, Jill Jones (Chair), Andrew Smith, and newly appointed members John Smith and Rachel...