Jill Elected as a Director on the Board of the UK Council on Deafness (UKCoD)
The Chair of DEX (Jill Jones), was elected and is representing DEX and the DEX Deaf Youth Council (DDYC) at the UK Council on Deafness (UKCoD), as a Director on the Board. She has been a UKCoD trustee before. UKCoD is the Secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary...
Celebrating British Sign Language and the Braidwood Academy
As millions of children head back to school for the start of term, today we celebrate one educational institution in particular: the Braidwood Academy. Opened in 1760 in Edinburgh, Braidwood is considered the UK’s first school for deaf children and the first to...
Why Some People Turned Down a “Medical Miracle”
Cochlear implants are touted as a medical miracle — and for some people, they do work wonders. For others, however, the implants can cause more harm than good. Five years ago, a deaf woman named Sloan Churman decided to film herself at the moment she activated her new...
West Yorkshire Police Deaf Info
Some useful info here: https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/deaf Click the images below to open the...