Category: News & Events
Irish Sign Language Interpreter Recognised for Work Home and Abroad
For your information please see below for information on UK resident Catherine White, originally from Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland, who has been shortlisted in the 2011 Signature Annual Awards for her work at home and in New Zealand to further access for deaf and deafblind people.
Catherine White – Communication Professional of the Year
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Information re: Residential Institutions Redress Board
Hands On has recently been contacted by Frank Ward & Co Solicitors (www.frankward.com) to make us aware that the Minister for Education And Skills recently announced that the Redress Board will close on September 17th 2011.
Eight Twenty Cabs: Text service for the Deaf
About two years ago I decided to put a simple mobile phone in our dispatch office so that my mother, who is almost deaf, could book a taxi. She loved the idea; it gave her a new lease on life.
She was telling her hearing friends about it and before I knew it we were receiving about 100 text bookings per week from her friends and their families.
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