Irish Deaf Society: Deaforward has closed due to lack of funding from the Dept. of Environment, Community and Local Government. This is a vital service we need to save.
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Tuesday, 01 July 2014 – Irish Deaf Society
The National Deaf Advocacy Service of the Irish Deaf Society has closed in response to their refusal of funding from the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
The Irish Deaf Society’s (IDS) National Advocacy Service for Deaf people has closed its office with full loss of staff following yesterday’s announcement by the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government that their funding will be discontinued with immediate effect. The announcement puts a halt to 11 years of services for the Deaf population of Ireland with an estimated 5,000 people affected.
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