UKCoD Manages Deaf Awareness Week

Deaf News

UKCoD manages Deaf Awareness Week, launched today: Deaf Awareness Week 2020 https://www.deafcouncil.org.uk/category/deaf-awareness-week/...

What It’s Like to Be Deaf When Everyone Is Wearing Face Masks

Deaf News

Interesting article on the Washingtonian website about what it’s like to be deaf when everyone is wearing face masks.   What It’s Like to Be Deaf When Everyone Is Wearing Face Masks    ...

Alan Haythornthwaite Obituary

Deaf News

Alan Haythornthwaite’s Other Lives obituary – an icon and legend (edited out, sadly). Read the Guardian obituary here: Guardian Other...

ITV Corrie Storyline

Deaf News

Have you all seen Coronation Street where there is a profoundly deaf baby in the story line?! Already DEX Perience is giving ITV full marks for explaining to Fiz and Chesney, the baby’s parents, that cochlear implants do not cure deafness and looks like they may...

DDYC Live Well Project Meeting

DDYC, Deaf News, Live Well Project

Yesterday was the first meeting for the DEX Deaf Youth Council to start their new Live Well project. The DDYC members started to plan the programme for next year and decided which activities on their “wish list” they wanted to do. We will post information...

Equality and Human Rights Commission schools bullying video

Deaf News, Video

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has made a video for schools about how to deal with bullying. We suggest you use this in schools where deaf children are being bullied. However, where BSL is the first language there needs to be a specialist procedure where the...