About DEXperience / DEX Deaf Youth Council
Our service is aimed at deaf children and deaf young people including those with additional needs, aged 0-30 years of age.
We work with Young Lives Wakefield, deaf organisations and Government agencies to facilitate the DEX Deaf Youth Council (DDYC) to provide information and support to parents, children and young people.
Recently we were awarded a £50,000 grant from Heritage Lottery Fund to encourage and empower deaf young people to discover their deaf identity and culture in a fun way.
Read about the Deaf Story Heritage Project
For this year, DDYC are training deaf young people to use their smartphones in making British Sign Language videos.
DDYC recognises the powerful usage of smartphones for deaf young people in sending comments, compliments and complaints in British Sign Language to statutory authorities.
DDYC News
DDYC 23rd June Event
We have decided to add another FREE DDYC event in June! We will be showing CODA at Leeds Society for Deaf and Blind People on Thursday 23rd June, 6-8pm. It's such a great film! Click here to watch the information in BSL: https://youtu.be/oBVxKuUcfrM Please let Sabah...
DDYC 18th June Event
Our next FREE DDYC event is on Saturday 18th June. We will be going for a meal at Bab Tooma and then walking round Roundhay Park. Please text Sabah if you'd like to come, her number is on the bottom of the poster. Here's the link to the BSL clip on YouTube:...
DDYC Volunteer Runs Edinburgh Marathon
Morning everyone - amazing news! Our DDYC volunteer and Board rep Hattie and her twin sister Annabel ran the Edinburgh marathon yesterday in a fantastic 4 hours 34 minutes!!! They also raised a huge £1360 for DEX - incredible 🤩 The money they have raised will help DEX...
DDYC Party May 22
On Saturday 14th May we celebrated our recent National Lottery Community Fund funding award of £209,080 to deliver deaf youth work for the next 3 years! It was such a lovely day with beautiful weather Our members had a great day chatting and enjoying lots of free food...
DDYC May Celebration Event
We are having a celebration event on Saturday 14th May! We want to tell our deaf young people how we plan to spend our National Lottery Community Fund money! Yvonne Cobb from BBC See Hear will be presenting us with our big cheque too! We'd love to see as many deaf...
DDYC April Event
Our next event is Saturday 2nd April in Leeds. Come and find out how to book a BSL interpreter for healthcare appointments and what to do if they don't turn up! We will also be chatting about volunteering with DEX. It will be lots of fun and look great on your CV!...
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