IDS update – IDS still at risk of closure. Still no news for the funding. IDS will meet Govt on Monday to discuss. We still need your support by sending us letter of support by email at [email protected] or U can send us your ISL video to our Advocacy phone 0864401443 to say why you…
DEAF people in Cork have raised concerns about the possible closure of the Irish Deaf Society. The Irish Deaf Society (IDS) is facing closure by the end of March if core funding is not secured. A year on since the passing of the Irish Sign Language Act, the organisation that led the campaign for ISL…
Hello, colleagues of Irish deaf, I’m Álvaro De Ramón Murillo, from the accessible tourism NGO Native. We have been one of the 6 projects promoted by the United Nations (UN) and its One Planet Sustainable Tourism Program. We are conducting our search for information on how people with minor hearing loss, severe hearing loss or…
Chime: DeafHear has changed its name to Chime! We want to chime together to deliver a society with no limits or barriers for anyone living with deafness or hearing loss. Visit chime.ie or follow us on our new Facebook page Chime – The National Charity for Deafness and Hearing Loss
Alabssi is deaf, and the character he played in the TV series, Black Summer, is deaf, too. Read this article on unapeda website,please click on Mustafa Alabssi’s incredible journey: Nexflix debut the latest feat for deaf Syrian refugee UNAPEDA UNAPEDA The French association of parents of deaf and hard of hearing children www.unapeda.asso.fr L’UNAPEDA est sur…
RTÉ has agreed to broadcast in the full the signed version of the National Anthem before Sunday’s All-Ireland senior football final. The on-pitch performance will be simulcast on RTÉ News Now and will also be reflected in RTÉ’s live pre-match coverage on RTÉ2, the state broadcaster said. Further read at: www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/rte-to-broadcast-signed-anthem-in-full-865745.html
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Every morning, County Antrim woman Wendy Newbronner’s first task is waking up her three children. Unlike most parents though, she cannot shout into their rooms and tell them to get up. All her sons are deaf. Mrs Newbronner had to pay to learn sign language after her first child was born, and now supports calls…
“All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small…” The classic hymn by Cecil Frances Alexander has endured the test of time, 200 years after her birth. But few know of the part both great and small that the hymn played in transforming the education of deaf children in 19th century northern Ireland. And…