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Is the Government bothered about us?

Fighting talk from Susan Daniel (NDCS CEO), in her article about the current educational system for Deaf children.
The reason behind her article is shown below:
Government figures published today highlight that record numbers of children (60 percent) achieved five GCSEs graded A* to C this summer (1). Yet only a third (32.9%) of deaf children achieve [...]

[ More ] October 18th, 2007 | 6 Comments | Posted in Deaf |

Wizard of Oz – ooh no, not you, Tony Nicholas

I am a returning member of 3D – Derby Deaf Drama – after having left 3 years earlier to travel around the country.
We looking for way to raise money for our next production which will be stage at a dedicated dance centre based in Derby, called DeDa.
To do this, we are doing a 10 mile [...]

[ More ] October 1st, 2007 | 5 Comments | Posted in Deaf, Media & Culture |

Animoto.com

This is a brilliant website, which can source photos from your Flickr/Picasa/Photobucket etc website or upload it. It will also look at music files on your laptop or you can choose one of theirs. The whole process took me 5 minutes and this is the result. A great way to jazz up and personalise your [...]

[ More ] September 20th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in Technology |

Petition – BSL as part of our basic human rights

This is a plug to encourage more people to sign up and support the cause…..it aspire to closely emulate the Welsh Language Act – another minority language within these British Isles.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Detail, in a form of a British Sign Language Bill, how all Deaf and hard of hearing [...]

[ More ] September 7th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Deaf |

What is your excuse?

For as long as I can remember, I have tried to avoid utilities / bank / councils / whatever, which insists on using the telephone only as part of their customer service frontline. Sometimes, I find myself compromised or faced with no choice but embark into the myriad of irritating telephone systems, along with my [...]

[ More ] August 22nd, 2007 | 8 Comments | Posted in Deaf, Personal |

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