We are sad to announce that Deaforward’s application for funding was unsuccessful. We applied to continue the services but this was unsuccessful. For now, Deaforward will close its services and aim to make an appeal and meet various ministers. We need you support. If you want more information or have questions, you can direct them to the IDS board. We will send more information to the members of the IDS.
Click here to watch the RTE programmes that are translated into Irish Sign Language: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/search/?q=irish%20sign%20language
Source: Irish Deaf Society
Hi Parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. You can view the summer update on Parents Corner by clicking here: www.deafhear.com/ParentsCorner/
Parents Corner is a section on DeafHear’s website dedicated to providing information and support to parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing children in Ireland.
The 10th European Deaf Bowling Championships took place in Vienna Austria in May.
The tournament was greatly successful and ran from the 14th to the 24th of May 2014.
Further read at: deafsportsireland.com/2014/06/results-of-the-10th-euro-deaf-bowling-championships/
OMAHA, Neb. ― Creighton University is appealing a federal judge’s ruling requiring it to provide a deaf student with special equipment and interpreters to allow him to finish his last two years of medical school.
U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp ruled in December that Creighton University’s medical school must accommodate Michael Argenyi’s disability. Last month, the judge ordered the Omaha university to pay nearly $500,000 in Argenyi’s legal fees.
Further read at: diverseeducation.com/article/64754/
A rampant Irish side recorded their biggest win ever as they trounced Norway 13-0 to achieve qualification to the 2015 European Deaf Football Championships which will be held in Germany next summer.
Further read at: deafsportsireland.com/2014/05/match-report-ireland-v-norway/
Four grumpy old Deaf men travel to Blackpool for an annual Deaf event. But when they meet a group of young Deaf men, things start to go wrong. Can the old and young men find a way to get on? This film stars Deaf actors John Smith, Matt Kirby, Jonathan Reid and Ilan Dwek as the old men, with Matthew Gurney, Adam Bassett and Sean Richards as the young men. It was written and directed by Charlie Swinbourne, and produced by Louis Neethling for Mutt and Jeff Pictures.
https://www.bslzone.co.uk/watch/four-deaf-yorkshiremen-go-blackpool
In 1973 BBC Two’s Horizon – which celebrates its 50th birthday this month – made its first documentary about deafness. Some forty years later it serves as a fascinating time capsule of attitudes to deafness at the time.
“In our loquacious society, the deaf are linguistic lepers,” notes the commentary from the Curtain of Silence.
“Rarely can we be bothered to make that little extra effort in talking to them, trying to understand them. We give them the jobs we don’t want. Having struggled into our world of speech, their opportunities are very limited.”
Further read at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-27219354
With the incoming local and European elections, politicians and candidates will come to your house looking for your vote…..please ask about ISL recognition.
Source: www.facebook.com/IrishSignLanguageRecognitionCampaign
The OED defines “disclosure” as the action of making new or secret information known. But for disabled people, it tends to have a more specific usage – one that causes much soul-searching and indecision.
What is disclosure?
It’s never far from a disabled jobseeker’s mind and usually comes to the fore when filling in a job application form. It’s the word used to describe that tricky situation that many people with disabilities will recognise – do I choose to tell a potential employer that I am disabled or not?
Further read at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-27193964