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…
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…
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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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…
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/
Deaf performer Caroline Parker signs to popular songs in her one-woman show A diva singing in a funeral parlour: now there’s an arresting subject for a play. Signs of a Diva, a one-woman show by Caroline Parker, will be touring various venues around the country later this month. What makes it even more intriguing is…
A research project entitled ‘Exploring the Experiences of Deaf Victims in the Spaces and Processes of the Irish Criminal Justice System’ is being carried out by Gill Harold at UCC. Funded by an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, the two-year research project began in October 2013 and is being conducted at the Centre for Criminal…
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