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A short video explaining how to fill in the medical card form and the documents you need to send in.

Source: Irish Deaf Society

Noel O’Donnell has been selected as the Ireland Deaf Footballer of the year for the 2012-13 season and he has been shortlisted in the top 3 for the FAI ‘Football For All’ player of the year award, which takes place this Sunday (2nd March) evening and is live on RTE.

Learning how to communicate more like a deaf person could improve your listening skills and make yourself heard better at work, according to international business consultant and coach Dr Bruno Kahne.

Dr Kahne, who works as a senior consultant with the AirBusiness Academy, a training and research consultancy in France owned by Airbus, has spent the last seven years researching the communication habits of deaf people, the results of which he has made into a new book entitled ‘Deaf Tips – Powerful Communication’.

Further read at: www.independent.ie/business/irish/how-deaf-people-can-teach-us-about-effective-communication-30025066.html

RTE have now changed their SEARCH on the RTE Player which means when you are now searching for a programme – type in IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE and the listing of all RTE programmes with ISL will appear.

www.rte.ie/player/ie/tag/irish%20sign%20language/

Source: Irish Deaf Society

Britain’s deaf children are being “failed by the education system”, a new study suggests.

Researchers say more than half the deaf children they assessed had reading difficulties as severe as the problems faced by hearing dyslexic children.

The team found there are no specific interventions routinely offered to deaf children to support reading.

The Department for Education says it is giving £1m to councils in England over two years to help deaf children.

Further read at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-26240043

A California man was allegedly beaten and tasered multiple times by four police officers while attempting to signal that he was deaf. Now, he’s suing local law enforcement.

The suit was filed on behalf of Jonathan Meister by the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, and claims police used excessive force and violated Meister’s civil rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Further read at: rt.com/usa/california-police-taser-deaf-man-097/

From Irish Deaf Society (IDS): Here’s a look back at our most viewed YouTube video about the Deaf communities struggle – “From Deafness to Deafhood”.

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Cork Independent (Politics) on page 24

Read the digital edition: http://corkindependent.com/data/digitaledition/current/files/24.html

Two Meath women are among a group of seven deaf swimmers who will cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais in July to raise funds for the Irish Deaf Women’s Group (IDWG).

Lisa Finn-Carroll, originally from Dublin, has been living in Beaufort Place, Navan, for the past 11 years and has already been training for a year for this challenge.

Source: www.meathchronicle.ie/news/roundup/articles/2014/02/13/4019641-two-local-deaf-swimmers-in-bid-to-cross-channel/

Genealogy Roadshow with ISL: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10252473/

Celebrity Master Chef with ISL: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10250343/

Dirty Old Town with ISL: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10252468/